Uh oh...New Food Pyramid May Be Difficult to Scale

You may have heard the recent announcement on the revision of the food pyramid. For those of you who follow the government pronouncements on healthy eating, you will probably remember that the last time it was revised the government took a lot of flak for bending to the food lobby.

This time it's different. Now the pyramid is tailored to your age, gender and activity level, and...they put it online! That's good, right? The feds are keeping up with the times and meeting the public on their own turf. Maybe.

It would be easy to be hypercritical and point out that even if everyone had access to the internet, it's just not convenient for people to figure out what it all means. While there's certainly some truth to it, the fact is that we don't know how it will be communicated to the public. It's not really a pyramid either, though they're still calling it that, so that doesn't make it any easier.

The new food pyramid isn't going to directly help those who need it. If you're reading this, it's likely that you've been thinking about what you eat for awhile too, and thus it won't significantly change the way you eat.

If you really need help with your diet, this may not be the place to start. Seems like the only way this is going get legs is if agribusiness and the food industry get behind it and support it. They have to make it part of the vernacular. Don't laugh. I wouldn't bet on it either, but it could happen. It wasn't uncommon to see the pyramid on the side of some food boxes.

Come on KGF, Kellogg's and ADM fire up the PR departments!

For what it's worth: www.foodpyramid.gov