The Children's Food Pyramid

Although the Usda food pyramid has been colse to since 1992, until 2005 there was not a special children's food pyramid. It was foremost to create a food-pyramid for kids because they have separate nutritional needs to adults. Children are growing and they need more nourishment for this aspect than do adults. The traditional food pyramid was designed to try and combat the increasing rates of death straight through heart disease and other ailments caused by bad diets and lack of nourishment knowledge.

The children's food pyramid is a lot more accessible for children because it explains things by using colors and geometric patterns. It also graphically explains things by the use of fat and thin. For instance on the children's food-pyramid that are large sections for fruits and vegetables and grains. These sections start as being quite thick at the bottom of the pyramid and as you go up into the food-pyramid and up straight through the sections they become very thin. This is to say that although an Apple is good for you as a fruit, if you put it into a high with lots of sugar on then it will become less good for you so you should eat less of it.

The Food Pyramid

The food-pyramid also encourages children to eat foods from the separate colors. The children's food-pyramid encourages children to eat foods from each of the food colors every day. It is hoped that with such graphical representations of nourishment that children will have a lot more comprehension about the nature of nutrition, and that this nutritional advice will stick in a child's mind much easier than the traditional food pyramid. It is also hoped that the children's food-pyramid will help children to encourage their peers, and also the adult relations to make changes to integrate good nourishment into their lives.

The Children's Food Pyramid