or the development of the original (1992) Food Guide yramid (Pyramid), extensive technical and consumer reearch was conducted. The food intake patterns that evenually were illustrated by the Pyramid graphic were develped in the mid 1980s through a research process that has een well documented. The first graphic presentation of hese new food intake patterns was as a Food Wheel that as part of a ...

The purpose of this paper is to examine one the most significant and longest running social marketing campaigns in the United States: the campaign to educate people about nutritional information and recommended daily dietary guidelines. Since the late 1800s the various attempts to communicate this information to the public frequently made use of visual displays of the scientific data. We provid...

The second edition of The Dietary Guidelines for Americans was published in 1990 as a joint effort of the U.S. Department of Agriculture and the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Dietary Guidelines for Americans 1990. Based on the Dietary Guidelines, a Food Guide Pyramid was constructed for educational purposes (The Food Guide Pyramid 1992). The principles underlying the Dietary Guid...

Earlier this year, I enjoyed an opportunity to speak at the Swiss Forum for Sport Nutrition in Zurich, organized by Dr. Paolo Colombani. One of my fellow presenters at this forum was Samuel Mettler, a graduate of the Movement Sciences and Sport course at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH Zurich). Samuel is about to finish his doctoral thesis on the glycemic index in sport and the i...

the food chain refers to a natural system by which energy is transmitted from one organism to another. in fact, a food chain consists of producers, consumers and decomposition. presence of complex food web increase the stability of the ecosystem. classical food chain theory arises from lotka-volterra model. in the present paper, the dynamics behavior of three level food chain is studied. a syst...

conclusions the present study revealed different degrees of malnutrition among drug addicts with multiple deficiencies in both macro- and micronutrients. results the mean age, body weight, height, and bmi were 34.4 ± 9.7 years, 63.1 ± 10.1 kg, 171.1 ± 11.6 cm, and 21.8 ± 4.4 kg/m², respectively. according to the percentile status of the bmis, the results showed that 35.2%, 20.4%, 37%, and 7.4% ...

INTRODUCTION Increasing evidence demonstrates that risk factors for chronic diseases are established during childhood and adolescence. Consensus about the need to increase prevention efforts makes the adoption of a healthy lifestyle seem desirable from early childhood onwards. After reviewing educational tools for children and adolescents aimed at promoting a healthy lifestyle, it was recognize...

Drawing on FAO’s definition of “sustainable diet”, we propose a “sustainable food pyramid” (SFP) which aims to eradicate malnutrition, promote health and protect the environment. These aspirational objectives require changes in the productive system, eating habits of the population, and rebalancing power relations between all actors in the food chain. This study addresses the psychosocial attit...