Goodbye Food Pyramid: Annotated Bibliography

Running head: GOODBYE FOOD PYRAMID, HELLO MYPLATE
Goodbye Food Pyramid, Hello MyPlate
Sasha Tolbert, Jacqueline Sandoval
Leilehua High School
February 24, 2015
GOODBYE FOOD PYRAMID, HELLO MYPLATE 1
Table of Contents
Abstract ...................................................................................................................................... 2
What’s New? ............................................................................................................................... 3
The Website................................................................................................................................. 4
Multiple Languages ...................................................................................................................... …show more content…
There are also charts and printable guides that you can use for meal planning and health guides and a section where you can get personalized guidelines based on age, weight, and activity level. There is even a section called “10 Tips Nutrition Education Series” (refer to Appendix C). Here they offer things for college students such as tips about eating on a budget and staying fit on campus. The website is centered around helping Americans plan for a healthier and more nutritional lifestyle. MyPlates’ introduction to physical activity tips was its way of not only encouraging a healthy dietary lifestyle, but also physical lifestyle. According to recent surveys done by the Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), Americans do not eat the proper amount of fruit and vegetables (Majority of Americans not Meeting Recommendations for Fruit and Vegetable Consumption, 2009). MyPlates’ combination of health guides and physical activity tips will surely contribute to America’s epidemic of …show more content…
Since MyPlate has been recently introduced to school cafeterias, more students have been served fruits and vegetables with their breakfasts and lunches. Rachel Begun, M.S., R.D., a spokesperson for the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics, says “School nutrition professionals understand that increasing the amount of fruits and vegetables on the menu doesn’t always mean kids will eat more of them. So, they are being more strategic about serving produce in ways that will increase kids’ interest and consumption.” Schools have since began cutting up fruit and vegetables into bite-sized pieces and serving them with dips, tossing fruit into yogurt parfaits, and mixing vegetables into side dishes (Ansel, n.d.). Students do not always want to eat all of their vegetables, or drink their entire milk carton, so