Goodbye, Sliced Pyramid: Hello, Plate
This week the USDA is releasing a new design for its food recommendations. Gone will be the preposterously awful "new pyramid." The original food pyramid made sense: you had the big blocks on the bottom (of stuff you were supposed to eat more of), and the tiny bits up at the top (fats and oils, eat sparingly).
But the new pyramid was just downright confusing. I never could make heads or tails of it, and I always wondered why they didn't just use a pie chart in the first place. (I also wondered why someone was walking up the side. It gave an air of progression that made no sense, given the graphic. Nothing about that thing made any sense whatsoever.)
But the new pyramid was just downright confusing. I never could make heads or tails of it, and I always wondered why they didn't just use a pie chart in the first place. (I also wondered why someone was walking up the side. It gave an air of progression that made no sense, given the graphic. Nothing about that thing made any sense whatsoever.)
