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Growing My Plate: How can we eat healthier food if we aren’t growing enough?

USDA’s new MyPlate dietary guidelines recommend that fruits and vegetables make up 50 percent of our daily food intake, but how can we meet those standards when we’re not growing enough of either?

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USDA Food Pyramid is Out. Meet the Food Plate.

The ubiquitous Food Pyramid is going away, and a new plate-based food graphic is coming soon to take its place. What do you think the plate should look like?

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Global Diets: Russians Too Fat, Americans Too Worldly

There are contrasting approaches to population health in the news this week. Russian officials have more or less ordered Russians to change their diets – the Federal Consumer Protection Service [ … ]