drag2share: The Harvard Healthy Eating Plate Offers Politics-Free Nutritional Guidelines [Health]

Source: http://lifehacker.com/5842833/the-harvard-healthy-eating-plate-offers-politics+free-nutritional-guidelines

When the USDA switched from the food pyramid to a new plate graphic, it did so to simplify healthy eating guidelines, but critics had issues with the inclusion of dairy and some lack of details. Harvard offers an alternative version.

The Harvard School of Public Health has previously provided similar, yet slightly different nutritional guidelines to the USDA's recommendations that used to be in pyramid form, along the same lines: more whole grains instead of refined grains and less processed and red meat in favor of other protein sources. A big change in the Harvard plate is the substitution of a glass of water instead of milk. There's also now a bottle of healthy oils and more explanatory text.

Harvard says its healthy version is "is free of the politics surrounding the meat and dairy industries," according to the article in The Kitchn. You can read Harvard's full recommendations for each section at the link below.

For comparison, here's the USDA plate again:

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I personally think it's a vast improvement. What about you?

Healthy Eating Plate | Harvard School of Public Health via The Kitchn

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