Elementary school food pyramid

jefedesalto
jefedesalto Posts: 154 Member
in Food and Nutrition
How many people think they should still be teaching this?

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I was helping my nephew with health class homework and saw this in his textbook.

I know kids have different nutritional needs than adults but it seems like this would have been more relevant when I was a kid some 15 years ago. When all my friends and I played in the woods and rode our bikes everywhere. That would explain the need for the excess carbs.

But our young people today have different leisure activities; i.e, video games; computers. I know many will say that parents need to kick their kids outside to play but most don't. It blew my mind last year when I went outside Christmas morning and didn't see one kid riding a new bike or playing with new toys. I feel like maybe we should be teaching our young people different nutritional models for different levels of activity.

I am curious to hear what those of you with kids have to say.

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  • katrwal
    katrwal Posts: 336 Member
    they've updated the pyramid to the plate, showing on a "typical" plate you should have 1/2 the plate filled with fruits/veggies, 1/4 protein, 1/4 starch, and then a small glass (approximately a 1/8th portion) of "dairy"... so it significantly changes the balance of the carbs/starch platform that i grew up with...

    i'm a fan of anything that helps kids to understand that cheetos (or insert any other snack here) are not a food group and helps people to feed themselves and their families as sensibly as possible (given socioeconomic and/or food sensitivity constraints)...
  • waldo56
    waldo56 Posts: 1,861 Member
    they've updated the pyramid to the plate, showing on a "typical" plate you should have 1/2 the plate filled with fruits/veggies, 1/4 protein, 1/4 starch, and then a small glass (approximately a 1/8th portion) of "dairy"... so it significantly changes the balance of the carbs/starch platform that i grew up with...

    This.

    Its an old textbook. The food pyramid is no longer officially recommended by anyone.

    (Though the legions of Taubes, Wheat Belly, and Paleo apostles still beleive it is because the food pyramid represents "them", the people in black suits out to get you and make you fat)

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