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Undead Twist on the Food Pyramid

Posted Jan 7th 2008 8:15AM by Shayna Glick
Filed under: Health & Medical

The FDA's food pyramid has helped people from all walks of life decide what to eat every day. Now, however, there is a new walk of life, or I should say unlife, that will benefit from the pyramid. The Zombie food pyramid sets new guidelines for the undead in their insatiable pursuit of sustenance.

There's only one problem with it: Zombies like brains the most, so why is it the base group? Live humans have to consume fats and sugars sparingly. I think the FDA got it wrong when they put the food that zombies crave as the one they can eat the most. That's like saying you can eat 6-11 servings of ice cream a day!

I'm going to start a letter writing campaign to the FDA telling them they're wrong (like they don't get any of those). One of the pyramids needs to be changed. Either I get to eat 6-11 servings of sugar/fat a day or zombies need to gnaw sparingly on brains. I don't know how many zombies are out there, but I'm hoping for the ice cream so they get to keep the brains. Mmmmmm brains.

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Deconstructing The Food Pyramid

Posted Aug 11th 2005 1:35AM by Deidre Woollard
Filed under: Science

The Washington Post takes a look at the new food pyramid. Gone is the friendly little diagram with pictures of the food you are supposed to eat. Instead there is an inscrutable rainbow triangle with a stylized guy running up it. The old pyramid was supposed to tell you what to eat but the new one is designed to be a more of a motivational symbol to eat well. The colors represent food groups and the width of the band indicates how much of your diet it should take up. The idea is that the recommendations can be changed on the government website without having to revamp the pyramid every single time. While I like the get-off-your-ass fitness guy running up the side I'm not certain that most people will take the time to learn about what the pyramid colors represent. I miss the little icons of bread, fruits, meat etc. And turning it vertical instead of horizontal doesn't have the same impact. Instead of looking like a structure, like the building blocks of a healthy body, it looks like a logo, which was of course the idea.

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