Food Guide Pyramids

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I just had a ? on the food guide pyramids...which one do u prefer to follow if u do at all?.. the new one or the old one?.....do u evn follow the pyramids?..what do u think about the idea of them?

[TheWizard]

My diet sucks. I eat all the things that taste good.

[redcar]

i dont follow any pyramid i jsut eat wat i think is best for me, a good healthy balance of carbohydrates protein calcium etc. i dont really like following set things.

[Ravenous]

Sorry but what the hell is a food pyramid?
I eat what I want, my diet is totally unhealthy but hey, you only live once.

[///James///]

i eat as well as i can, alot of junk make me feel real heavy and hence i can barely walk! i balance it all out but i dont follow anything except my mum cooking (which is followed by something!)

[Whisper]

I don't eat much period

[ThePhantom]

I eat what i eat, although i LOVE the new one .. let me get an image up of it. . .

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/nation/daily/graphics/diet_042005.gif

As you see, no diet is complete without exersize (which is the man on the left) I personally do not live by the food pryamid, i live by the amount of calories i get. I take a multivitamin (now) to get 100% in every vitamin/mineral (which adds more then 100 percent at the end of the day) meaning that even if i do only have 500 calories a day, my body is getting what i need.

The main thing this pryamid is trying to show is exersize, which the old one does not. This ALSO gives an example as: if you only eat half of one thing, you need to eat half of everything else. If you cut the pryamid in half vertically, you need to do that to ALL layers including exersize fats veges ect to keep everything balanced . . and zen :-p

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Sorry but what the hell is a food pyramid?
I eat what I want, my diet is totally unhealthy but hey, you only live once.

I dont know if its something only in the US but its a thing to help u balance ur eating habits and try to eat a lto healthier

[ThePhantom]

No it is a reccomendation . . see the percentage on the back of food? that is called the DV and is the percentage of the i ntake of that substance that the average healthy american eats that is surveyed every 10 (?) years then redone to help everybody out

how would you like to eat a 'healthy' pot pie to find out it has 70 percent DV sodium in it?

not only America does it . . civilized areas and countries do i

i know for a fact that iran and japan does it from personal experience :)

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wow i nvr knew there was a new one..like i said i dont evn follow it

[serial-thrilla]

i eat what tastes good. whats the point of being healthy if you cant eat what you want?

[ThePhantom]

whats the point of being healthy


not bashing but how do you know you are healthy? you may look healthy but be totally wack on the insides : for example: anorexics . . they may looks sexy and all but their organs are eating themselves.. thats deffinitley not healthy if you ask me

[serial-thrilla]

first off i never said i was healthy and no way do anerexics look sexy. they look disgusting.

[kolte]

I'm heatly i think, I follow the f.p. to a certian extent, not that much bread though, more milk and dairy than anything else. go dairy.

[<-Dying_to_Live->]

My diet sucks. I eat all the things that taste good.


hahaha im with ya on that one :P

[Ravenous]

not only America does it . . civilized areas and countries do i


Britain is civilised and i've never seen that before in my life. Ahh well, I wouldn't bother following it anyway! :P

[Whisper]

I eat what I want
When I want
I'm 6'4" and 130lbs

I have never been even slightly over weight in my entire life. I've got allot of endurance, I'm fast, i'm flexible, and I have a high pain tolerance. I don't need allot of food or sleep to function and I can go loooong periods between needing either

Soo umm...
Fuck the pyramid

[<-Dying_to_Live->]

I eat what I want
When I want
I'm 6'4" and 130lbs



ahhh u mean u DONT eat what u want (y) :P

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yeah i think the US is the only country that may use it..i was created in the US health department

[redcar]

i ahve seen it around before however i dont think we really use it too much.

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yeah.. i wouldnt imagine so