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What do you think about the new $2 million Food Plate?

What do you think about the Food Plate?


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If the Food Plate communicates accurate information (which is a big "if"), then I think $2 million is a great bargain. We spend TRILLIONS on health care annually, and a large part of that is due to poor lifestyle choices. If the Food Plate is even the slightest bit helpful it will recoup its costs many times over.
 
no, everyone DOES NOT know how to be healthy. kids don't.

You're right. They don't. That's why we have teachers like myself who could create that $2 million Food Plate with a 2 cent paper plate and some construction paper.
 
I don't like it. It's not necessarily the concept or the money. It's "dairy."

I was paying attention to the way my eyes see it when I'm looking at it. "Dairy" is the last thing I see, it's off to the side, and it seems smaller. I think it may down-value the importance of dairy in a visual sense. Dairy is pretty damn important, especially if you happen to be a woman, and even more so if you ever want kids.
 
First Lady Reveals New Food

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What is that suppose to mean in regard to a balanced diet anyway? Are those shapes suppose to represent portion size or overall % of DDA? . . . anything that' suppose to encourage anything shouldn't be so vague that it's pointless.

Is my protein (LOL - which is funny - protein can be found in ALL those food groups. *snort*) suppos eto always occupy 1/4 of my plate?
What if I'm eating out of a bowl?

And do I always have to drink my dairy or can I eat that?

What was wrong with serving suggestions like they use to do?
 
What is that suppose to mean in regard to a balanced diet anyway? Are those shapes suppose to represent portion size or overall % of DDA? . . . anything that' suppose to encourage anything shouldn't be so vague that it's pointless.

Is my protein (LOL - which is funny - protein can be found in ALL those food groups. *snort*) suppos eto always occupy 1/4 of my plate?
What if I'm eating out of a bowl?

And do I always have to drink my dairy or can I eat that?

What was wrong with serving suggestions like they use to do?

Those shapes are sized in proportion to the amounts received from lobbyiests. :lol:
 
You're right. They don't. That's why we have teachers like myself who could create that $2 million Food Plate with a 2 cent paper plate and some construction paper.

Does this include the nutritional research required?
 
On the list of things to bitch and whine about, it's right up there with Palin painting a flag on her bus.

I seem to remember this same type of conversation with the Terrorist threat level. That was stupid, this new plate is stupid.
 
I don't like it. It's not necessarily the concept or the money. It's "dairy."

I was paying attention to the way my eyes see it when I'm looking at it. "Dairy" is the last thing I see, it's off to the side, and it seems smaller. I think it may down-value the importance of dairy in a visual sense. Dairy is pretty damn important, especially if you happen to be a woman, and even more so if you ever want kids.

Many cultures don't eat dairy at all. Calcium isn't just in dairy products.
 
Sorry?....

I think mega's asking about the 2 million. Is the 2 million just to change the pyramid to a plate, or was there some research behind it that was included with the 2 million dollar price tag?
 
You're right. They don't. That's why we have teachers like myself who could create that $2 million Food Plate with a 2 cent paper plate and some construction paper.

"teachers like myself"? do you mean "teachers like me"?
 
I think mega's asking about the 2 million. Is the 2 million just to change the pyramid to a plate, or was there some research behind it that was included with the 2 million dollar price tag?

I don't know if he's asking that or saying that my construction paper/plate lesson wouldn't have any research behind it.
 
I don't know if he's asking that or saying that my construction paper/plate lesson wouldn't have any research behind it.

Ockham got it right.
 
Ockham got it right.

Ah, I'm guessing the research is included. But nutrition has been researched out the wazoo. Why do we need to keep reinventing the wheel? More fruits and veggies, less sugars and starches. Take a vitamin daily. It's not rocket surgery.
 
I cannot find a reference to the 2 million cost associated with this, nor what that bought. Maybe the OP could provide those so people actually had enough information.
 
Ah, I'm guessing the research is included. But nutrition has been researched out the wazoo. Why do we need to keep reinventing the wheel? More fruits and veggies, less sugars and starches. Take a vitamin daily. It's not rocket surgery.

The human body is very complex, I expect that this recommendation as to which is the best portion sizes will change over the years as we learn more. More fruits and veggies and less sugars and starches is a good recommendation, but how much less? You can't answer that sort of question without research. In fact, it was likely from the old food portion suggestions and the campaign the government ran in the 50s and 60s that you even consider such a thing common sense. However, that campaign does need to be repeated for each new generation.
 
Ah, I'm guessing the research is included. But nutrition has been researched out the wazoo. Why do we need to keep reinventing the wheel? More fruits and veggies, less sugars and starches. Take a vitamin daily. It's not rocket surgery.

What kind of surgical equipment do you need for rocket surgery, and who does it, doctors or mechanics?

So you don't know what the 2 million bought, but you think it is too much? You do not understand keeping research current with new knowledge. You are throwing a fit over something that accounted for about .01 % of the US budget, assuming it was paid for by the US government and not private donations(do you actually know this, or are you assuming again?).

Do you have any other painfully trivial bitches to make?
 
You know - slightly off subject - but I have a serious problem taking any such advise from soemone who doesn't look like they're practiciing what they preach.

I see Mrs Obama getting a little thick and don't imagine she remotely follows the food pyramid. In the same way I don't think that a aesthetician with acne knows a single thing about proper skin care. Or like the overweight gym instructor at my kid's elementary school.

*shrug*

maybe I'm snide :)
 
This is a stupid complaint. Food pyramid has been around since 92 when Bush HW was president and the gov has been helping with dietary guidelines for a long time. This is not a waste of money considering the last pyramid had no information on it other than different colors. Now people know. One thing I notice people think protein protein protein but for someone who is not actively doing resistance training protein is recommended only 10-12 percent of calories a day. Fats should be more abundant than protein actually in most people
 
This is a stupid complaint. Food pyramid has been around since 92 when Bush HW was president and the gov has been helping with dietary guidelines for a long time. This is not a waste of money considering the last pyramid had no information on it other than different colors. Now people know. One thing I notice people think protein protein protein but for someone who is not actively doing resistance training protein is recommended only 10-12 percent of calories a day. Fats should be more abundant than protein actually in most people

The food pyramid is a lot older than that.
 
You know - slightly off subject - but I have a serious problem taking any such advise from soemone who doesn't look like they're practiciing what they preach.

I see Mrs Obama getting a little thick and don't imagine she remotely follows the food pyramid. In the same way I don't think that a aesthetician with acne knows a single thing about proper skin care. Or like the overweight gym instructor at my kid's elementary school.

*shrug*

maybe I'm snide :)

Wow! Holy ****! Mrs. Obama is not, in any way, shape or form, at an unhealthy weight. I mean seriously, this has to be one of the stupidest things I have read here in awhile.
 
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