Using a Food Pyramid
Learn how to use the food pyramid to build balanced meals, understand portion sizes, and make nutritious choices for your whole family.
A Food Pyramid for Children
Food pyramids are a good tool to use when feeding children and teaching them about nutrition as a visual guide to the amounts and ratios of foods they are ea...
A Food Pyramid for Optimim Health
While it’s long been known that a balanced combination of foods from all the basic food groups included in the food pyramid will help produce a fitter body...
Adolescence and the Food Pyramid
Why Do Young People Have Food Issues? It’s interesting to note that until the 1940s in many parts of the West, children didn’t eat with their parents unt...
An Introduction to the Food Pyramid
The food pyramid is a simple, visual way of ensuring you and your family get the best nutrition on a daily basis. As the pyramid is a picture, rather than te...
Detox and Food Pyramid
The classic reason for a detoxification diet was always an impaired or poorly functioning liver. Doctors often prescribed a detox to their patients if they f...
Food Labelling and Additives
What Are Food Additives? An additive is defined as anything added to food to preserve its flavour or improve its taste and appearance, or enhance its keeping...
Food Pyramid 2005: the Rainbow Pyramid
The 2005 food pyramid released by the United States Government was designed to include the exercise component which had been left out of the original nutriti...
Food Pyramid and Dining Out
Dining Out – A Treat Or A Diet Breaking Occasion? A meal out with family or friends should be a happy time, but if you are on a diet, or trying to eat heal...
Food Pyramid and Food Safety
If you’ve decided that it’s time for you to focus on more nutritious eating, there’s a very important stage that you mustn’t miss out on. And it’s...
Food Pyramid and Ramadan
For many cultures there are religious and spiritual fasts that contribute to the life of the community but sometimes feel quite difficult to fit into the bus...
Food Pyramid for Breastfeeding Mothers
Giving birth is one of the greatest experiences of a woman’s life, and being able to breastfeed is a great accomplishment for her, and a support to the hea...
Food Pyramid for Children Who Are Picky Eaters
Does your child resist your best efforts by refusing any novel food you put in front of them? Here are some ideas that will help you remove the stress from t...
Food Pyramid for Older People
Does Age Affect The Way We Eat? Ageing has a profound effect on the way we eat, and because this has only recently been recognised, a lot of research is curr...
Food Pyramid for Perfect Skin
Perfect skin is a grail – something that just about everybody wishes for, even if they never achieve it. But moving towards skin perfection is easier if we...
Food Pyramid Menu Planning
Each new Food Pyramid offers some changes and they can make the average cook feel that no sooner have they mastered one system, than a new one appears to con...
Food Pyramid New Year's Resolutions
People have more success with changing their food habits if they make small changes in a sequential pattern. For example, if you want to eat less sugary food...
Food Pyramid Proportions Quiz
The Food Pyramid is designed to help us understand two things: The types of food we should eat to be healthy The proportions in which we should eat them. Of...
Food Pyramid Updates in 2010
Since it was first introduced in America, over a decade ago, the food pyramid has been a simple, visual tool to help everybody eat better. But diets and fami...
Healthy Food Pyramid for Babies and Toddlers
Every parent wants to give their child the best start in life, and increasingly, infant nutrition is being seen as a key factor in a child’s future wellbei...
Keeping a Food Pyramid Journal
Why Keep A Food Journal? A food journal is useful for many reasons. It makes you aware of your bad eating habits and reminds you of your good ones and it hel...
Motivation Tools for Healthy Eating
There are times when we all need motivation to eat healthily. Here are some ways to keep your motivation high whatever your circumstances. Family Motivation...
Questionnaire: Are You a Food Pyramid Pharoah?
The basic Food Pyramid principles are easy to learn, but to be a Food Pyramid Pharaoh you need to have fully mastered the underlying ideas that help you crea...
Teaching Children to Cook Healthily
Why Teach Your Child To Cook Learning to cook helps children to understand nutrition and healthy eating in a practical way. While such lessons are taught in...
The UK Food Pyramid: the Eatwell Plate
What Is The Eatwell Plate? The UK government created the Eatwell Guide (originally developed by the Food Standards Agency) to serve as a simple pictorial gui...
Traffic Light Food Labelling
Traffic light labelling is a controversial tool, developed in the UK to help consumers see the healthy and unhealthy components of the food they buy. How Doe...
Using the Food Pyramid for Packed Lunches
Many people would like to take a packed lunch but get bored with the process or can’t think of what to pack. Using the food pyramid to help you create heal...
Using the Food Pyramid to Improve Your Diet
One of the key features of the latest version of the USDA's classic dietary system, the food pyramid, is its personalisation. It’s been designed to allow e...