Your Unusual Healing Foods Pyramid
75This Food Pyramid Is Far Superior Than USDA's and ADA's
The University of Michigan's School of Integrative Medicine Healing Foods Pyramid is an enlightened, updated, realistic guide to a healthy diet for everyone, and especially for diabetics.
You can read a great deal more on their website as well as additional information here, as I grow this Hub. Check back! But, above all, it is important to remove the erroneous base of those other pyramids - Grains! To use grains as the foundation is a house of cards, destined to fall and plunge you into poor health!
And, it is important to understand that portions for children and elders need to be nutrition-packed, which is what this Healing Foods Pyramid will accomplish. In everyone's diet, but especially children and elders, vegetables, lean protein and healthy oils, along with pure waters should be at least 90% of your diet. And, please notice the tabs on the right-side; they are guidelines to frequency of use, and are color-coded to the background of each section.
Learn this pyramid, and use it, as you will be much better guided toward health than with the other more usually touted food pyramids.
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Read a great deal more about the Healthy Foods Pyramid at University of Michigan's School of Integrative Medicine. Check back here, too, as I grow this Hub!
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Hi Mark,
Sorry I haven't been checking my email for this site for awhile. I really appreciate your comment and encourage people to try the foods that function like grains, but which are not grains e.g. amaranth and quinoa (both are botanical fruits) OR coconut, almond and other nuts (ground for flours for some applications). Most of these are beneficial to pH in your body, too.
Even as far as grains go, there are big differences, nutritionally and as attending to the pH level of foods. The most beneficial of the official grains are oats and organic brown rice, in that case.
You can learn more at my blog: http://diabetesdietdialogue.wordpress.com
Best Regards,
Em (new horizons)
The USDA receives funding from the meat, dairy, and grain industries, therefore their pyramid is built to satisfy those industries interests. I noticed you have included dairy in the daily consumption category. What is your argument for including it in a healthy diet at that frequency?
Hi Chris,
This is not my Pyramid, but it is the best general one which I have found that will be healthier for most people and one most people will be willing to follow.
Personally, I think that a Vegan Pyramid is just as healthy, as long as one understands how to handle Vitamin B12 supplementation and Dr. Oz has one of those pyramids on his site.
The business kowtow policy at the USDA is scandalous and it is yet another reason why NOT to use their pyramid.
Thanks for visiting and for your comment.
Mark Pearson 3 years ago
I definitely subscribe to the no grains and sugars in the diet. Its tough to do though with the modern supermarkets stocking aisles and aisles of foods based mostly on refined grains (flour) and sugars.