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The New Food Guide Pyramid
"Some Fats are Healthy for the Heart"
The U.S.D.A. officially released the Food Guide Pyramid in 1992 to help the American public make dietary choices that would maintain good
health and reduce the risk of chronic disease. In 2000, the U.S.D.A. began a multi-year, broad-based reassessment of the Food Guide
Pyramid. The results are expected to come in the form of an updated Food Guide Pyramid in 2005.
In the meantime, however, Arthur Willett, chair of the Department of Nutrition
at Harvard and author of The Harvard Medical School Guide to Healthy Eating entitled
Eat, Drink And Be Healthy, claims his research of more than 20
years proves, among other flaws in the current Food Guide Pyramid, that not all
fats are bad.
Willett's proposed new Food Guide Pyramid suggests "plant oils (olive, canola,
soybean, corn, sunflower, peanut and other vegetables oils) should be consumed
AT MOST MEALS."
For more information about the proposed changes to the Food Guide Pyramid,
visit www.hsph.harvard.edu/now/aug24/
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