Health and Nutrition Letter

One Year Later: Lessons from New Guidelines and Pyramid

February 2006

Abstract

So how are we doing? Last month marked the one-year anniversary of the release of the new federal dietary guidelines, and April will see the first birthday of the revised “food pyramid,” dubbed MyPyramid. The new guidelines and high-tech pyramid sparked a flurry of media attention a year ago. But since then it’s been up to us to put the government’s advice into practice, changing our diets and behavior.

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