Question

The Food Guide Pyramid is a guideline created by the US Department of Agriculture to encourage Americans to make healthy choices and to eat a balanced diet. How does the Food Pyramid accomplish these goals? Do you think the Food Guide Pyramid is effective? Why or why not?

Answer 1

The food pyramid gives a simple and visually appealing guideline that enables people to easily see how much of different key food groups they should be eating. It encourages healthy eating but emphasising the smaller quantity of fats and larger quantity of carbohydrates one should eat, for example. It is effective, but the weakness is that food packaging is not always labelled well enough for us to know the exact nutritional content.

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Answer 2

The food pyramid is taught to young children to try and integrate this into the rest of their lives. It is considered better to introduce the idea of healthy eating at a younger age so that the concept appears as appealing later in life. I think that the food pyramid is effective for those that want to eat healthy and are committed to figuring out how to do so. Those that do not want to eat healthy, will not pay attention to the food pyramid. The food pyramid teaches people how to build up healthy eating habits.