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Critics lambaste the four-tiered pyramid for its wide base of grains and its omission of such essentials to good eating habits as water and exercise...
First unveiled in 1992, the pyramid just wasn’t designed with the epidemic of obesity in mind...
...though the food pyramid is met with wide recognition by most Americans, some nutrition experts believe that it does too little to cut down on obesity...
...professor Walter C. Willett has even suggested his own recipe for the pyramid, which incorporates new scientific findings about fats and carbohydrates in a seven-tiered design. In Willett’s popular alternative, the bottom tier is exercise and refined grains have relocated...
Others have proposed reshaping the pyramid into a bowl or a following Canada’s model and using a plate. According to Blackburn, the problem lies not with the guide itself but with a widespread indifference toward good eating habits...