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Letter From the Editor: On Coloring Inside the Lines

By Dan Flynn on October 11, 2015

First off, I don’t mean to disparage anyone on the federal government’s Dietary Guidelines Advisory Committee. They are all probably fine folks. It seems that they are all the big names in nutrition working for…
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MyPlate Hits One-Year Mark

By Gretchen Goetz on June 1, 2012

It’s been one year since the Obama Administration unveiled its initiative to promote nutritious food choices using the MyPlate icon, an image of a colorful plate filled on the left side by fruits and vegetables…
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USDA Launches MyPlate Video Challenge

By Gretchen Goetz on September 29, 2011

The U.S. Department of Agriculture this week expanded its new MyPlate campaign for healthier eating by launching a video competition to promote the first message of the movement: make half your plate fruits and vegetables.…

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Harvard Steps Up to the Healthy Eating Plate

By Alli Condra on September 19, 2011

Just a few short months after the U.S.Department of Agriculture unveiled its new food guide MyPlate, nutrition experts at Harvard’s School of Public Health and Harvard Health Publications released their own guide, Healthy Eating…

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'My Plate' — Rounding out the American Diet

By Gretchen Goetz on June 22, 2011

Earlier this month, the food pyramid officially became old news as the government rolled out a new image to promote healthy eating: a plate depicting the five food groups and how much space they should…

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Food Pyramid Scrapped for Simpler 'My Plate'

By Helena Bottemiller on June 3, 2011

America’s widely recognized food pyramid is being replaced by a simpler, more relevant nutritional symbol: a plate. First Lady Michelle Obama, Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack and Surgeon General Regina Benjamin unveiled “My Plate,” a graphic…

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