Food Pyramid Math

Geoff Krall gets mathematical with the food pyramid redesigns:

I was all set to contest that the new (“old”) food pyramid, adopted in 2005, was garbage mathematically and visually. And the challenge was for students to come up with a better, more mathematically accurate, food pyramid. Then the United States government dropped the new MyPlate diagram in my lap.

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