Central Virginia Organic Gardener

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Tuesday, November 29, 2011

New Food PyramidS! Yes PyramidS!

This is not directly about gardening, though food and issues related to food are indirectly related. The non-profit Oldways Preservation Trust, has created a series of healthy food pyramids based on culturally traditional ways of eating (and also a vegetarian food pyramid). At last, food pyramids not influences by lobbyists for the food-industrial-complex (the beef lobby, the pork lobby, milk, sugar and soft drink lobbies!) To see these great pyramids (which I can't seem to reproduce here), go to:

http://www.oldwayspt.org/eating-well/introduction-traditional-diet-pyramids

To read New York Times Blog post on them, go to:

http://commonhealth.wbur.org/2011/11/oldways-traditional-eating/

1 comment:

Anita said...

I must be multi-ethnic because you can put most of the food from any of those pyramids in front of me at my hungriest time and I will devour it all. :)

On second thought...I like garlic but not in overdose quantites.