Michelle Obama is really doing the nutritional/organic/healthy food world a solid, I have to say. She has spearheaded the fight against obesity with aplomb, and with a grace and sensitivity that many lack. Beyond the garden at the White House, the bee hives, and her awesome Move Your Body campaign, today Mrs. Obama (along with Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack and Surgeon General Regina Benjamin) unveiled the lasted diagram for nutritional information, an unspeakably huge part of the fight against obesity. Portion sizes in America have gone out of control-huge and as we all know (but sometimes can't do much to help) we're eating, mostly, all the wrong things.
Ladies and gents, it is time to kiss that old food pyramid good-bye! We now have myPlate, a much more straight-forward concept of a dinner plate and its appropriate portions (half fruits and veggies, a quarter protein and a quarter grains, with a small side circle of dairy). Though not totally fool-proof (because I can seriously mound up my grains . . . and lets not forget the mountain o' mashers from Close Encounter of the Third Kind) it does translate much easier than the pyramid ever did . . . for children AND adults.
news source: The New York Times
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