Cereal box readers likely recognize the Food Guide Pyramid, a graphic designed by the US Department of Agriculture (USDA) as an easy-to-follow guide to healthy eating. The pyramid's designers thought ...

Discover the surprising history of the USDA's nutritional guidelines—from humble beginnings to the infamous food pyramid ...

Facts can and do change as new evidence comes to light—it’s a core part of what science is all about. As we learn more and ...

Researchers at Tufts' Human Nutrition Research Center on Aging (HNRCA) have published an updated food guide pyramid for aging adults, which includes a graphic illustration to build on a previous ...

Pyramids can help give us an overall picture of a particular food chain. They can represent either numbers of a particular organism or their biomass, which is living tissue. A pyramid of numbers ...