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Showing posts with label food pyramid. Show all posts
Showing posts with label food pyramid. Show all posts

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/