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Food Guide Pyramid: Choosing Healthy Foods for a Balanced Diet

The Food Guide Pyramid is a guide that helps us make healthy food choices by showing the daily servings needed from different food groups. It includes grains, fruits, vegetables, dairy, protein, and sugars/fats/salts. Each group provides essential nutrients for our bodies. Understanding the Pyramid is essential for maintaining a balanced diet and living a healthy lifestyle.

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Food Guide Pyramid: Choosing Healthy Foods for a Balanced Diet

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  1. The Food Guide Pyramid Meg Sundseth May 2002

  2. So what is this Food Pyramid?(Click on the button that you think fits best) • An Egyptian refrigerator. A stack of Tater Tots. It’s a guide that helps us choose healthy foods.

  3. You’re right!!! • This is what it looks like. You can click on it for a bigger view. • It’s a guide that helps us make healthy food choices. • It tells us all the food groups our bodies need and how many servings of each group we need. From USDA

  4. So, why is it shaped like a pyramid? The base or the bottom of the pyramid is the grain, cereal and bread group. We need 6 to 11 servings of this group. The most of any of them. If you were to make a pyramid out of Tater Tots you would put the most on the bottom to support all the rest. From USDA

  5. The next layer up is the fruits and vegetables group.You need 2 to 4 servings of the fruits and 3 to 5 servings of the vegetables. From USDA

  6. The next layer is the dairy and the protein groups. We need 2 to 3 servings a day of the dairy group and 2 to 3 servings of the protein group. From USDA

  7. The tip-top of the pyramid is the sugar,fats, and salt group. Guess what? We don’t need to make choices for that group because if we eat foods from the other groups we get all the fats, sugars and salt our bodies need. But that’s the fun group!!! If you eat a little bit from this group it’s okay but concentrate on getting foods from the other groups. From USDA

  8. Our bodies are unique, complicated machines. Food is our fuel. It gives us energy, vitamins, minerals, and special compounds or nutrients that keep us running smoothly. From Barry’s ClipArt

  9. Each group on the Pyramid contains certain nutrients. If we eat foods from each group we’ll be sure to get all the nutrients we need. From Barry’s ClipArt

  10. There’s a lot to know about food and nutrition. Knowing about the Food Guide Pyramid gives you a good start at having a balanced diet and living a healthy life style.

  11. Bibliography • Food and Nutritional Information Center. (1995, December). Eat a variety of foods, cereal label. The interactive Food Guide Pyramid. Retrieved May 2, 2002 from the World Wide Web: (http://www.nal.usda.gov/fnic/dga/dga95/fig02.html). • Food and Nutritional Information Center. Large image of the Food Guide Pyramid with labels. Retrieved May 2, 2002 from the World Wide Web: (http://www.nalusda.gov/fnic/Fpyr/pyramid.gif). • Healthy Kids Challenge. (2001, July). Kids and families. Retrieved May 2, 2002 from the world Wide Web (http://www.healthykidschallenge.com/funforkids.html#). • Sundseth, M. (2002, May). Hunt for facts about nutrition. (http://www.kn.pacbell.com/wired/fil/pages/listnutritiome2.html).

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