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The Healthy Eating Pyramid

The Healthy Eating Pyramid
By Elaine Shay

A healthy eating pyramid is a nutrition guide developed by the
Harvard school of public health. The pyramid suggests a manner
of eating where ideal proportions of each food category to be
taken per day are outlined. The healthy eating pyramid
recommends the eating plant oils such olive oil, soybean oil and
corn oil as well as the eating of vegetables in the abundance
intervals of three or more times a day. The pyramid also entails
13 servings of nuts and legumes with a 1-2 servings of dairy or
calcium supplement. In the pyramid there are also
recommendations of the 1-2 serving of poultry and the
encouragement of a sparing use of meat and butter and refined
foods like white rice, white bread potatoes, pasta and sweets.

The dynamics that characterise the relationship between health
and diet for the children abound. Studies have shown that in
fact children in the entirety of the socio-economic levels are
all susceptible to the dangers of poor nutrition for one reason
or another. The factors that characterise the link between poor
diet and disease range form the fact that some children do not
receive enough of each day’s food supplies to the fact that most
of the children are left ungoverned on the aspect of their
feeding and food purchase lifestyles and resultantly children
remain malnourished. Hellmich N. (1992) adds “Many other
children receive enough food supplies but they eat food stuffs
which are too high in sugar, fat and other components such as
sodium which make them prone to the dangers of overweight and
obesity and other chronic diseases”.

In addition to the foregoing it is worth mentioning that as the
number of working parents continues to grow more and more
children are left with the responsibility of feeding themselves
on their shoulders and this must be expected to expose children
to health dangers related to diet owing to the fact that food
purchasing and eating habits of children are hardly rational.
The other dimensions that have been up for keen consideration
enlist the premise that there is an intricate link between
children’s diet and their ability to learn. “The relationship
has been realized for long enough now through anecdotal exhibit
and even more recently through the evaluations of the outcomes
of controlled research studies.” This has come as the reason for
the further importance and reinforcement of nutritional
education particularly for the children.

The thrust of nutrition education has been revolutionized to
take a grass roots resemblance with some nutritional education
being given to women in prenatal periods. This has been
charcterised by the emphasis of way in which low weight gain
during pregnancy may result in the increase of low birth weight
dangers (pegged at less than 5.5 pounds) of the new born baby.
This is particularly important in the consideration of the
reality that low birth weight babies are more susceptible to
hearing, sight and learning defects that often necessitate the
solicitation or more special education services. The special
Supplement Food Program for Women, Infants and children (WIC)
offers food and counseling as well as nutritional education to
pregnant women. The program has also extended its services to
the lactating women in low-income classifications.

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