Logo
Unionpedia
Communication
Get it on Google Play
New! Download Unionpedia on your Android™ device!
Install
Faster access than browser!
 

Healthy eating pyramid

Index Healthy eating pyramid

The Healthy Eating Pyramid (alternately, Healthy Eating Plate) is a nutrition guide developed by the Harvard School of Public Health, suggesting quantities of each food category that a human should eat each day. [1]

50 relations: Brown rice, Butter, Calcium, Candy, Canola, Corn oil, Dairy, Dietary supplement, Dieting, Egg as food, Exercise, Fish, Food, Food and Nutrition Service, Food Balance Wheel, Food pyramid (nutrition), Fruit, Functional food, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Health food restaurant, Healthy diet, Human nutrition, Legume, List of diets, MyPlate, Nut (fruit), Nutrient, Nutrition, Nutrition Education, Oatmeal, Obesity, Olive oil, Orthorexia nervosa, Pasta, Potato, Poultry, Red meat, Refined grains, Saturated fat, Soybean oil, Sunflower oil, United States Department of Agriculture, Unsaturated fat, Vegetable, Vegetable oil, White bread, White rice, Whole grain, Whole wheat bread, 5 A Day.

Brown rice

Brown rice is whole grain rice, with the inedible outer hull removed; white rice is the same grain with the hull, bran layer and cereal germ removed.

New!!: Healthy eating pyramid and Brown rice · See more »

Butter

Butter is a dairy product containing up to 80% butterfat (in commercial products) which is solid when chilled and at room temperature in some regions and liquid when warmed.

New!!: Healthy eating pyramid and Butter · See more »

Calcium

Calcium is a chemical element with symbol Ca and atomic number 20.

New!!: Healthy eating pyramid and Calcium · See more »

Candy

Candy, also called sweets or lollies, is a confection that features sugar as a principal ingredient.

New!!: Healthy eating pyramid and Candy · See more »

Canola

Canola oil, or canola for short, is a vegetable oil derived from rapeseed that is low in erucic acid, as opposed to colza oil.

New!!: Healthy eating pyramid and Canola · See more »

Corn oil

Corn oil (maize oil) is oil extracted from the germ of corn (maize).

New!!: Healthy eating pyramid and Corn oil · See more »

Dairy

A dairy is a business enterprise established for the harvesting or processing (or both) of animal milk – mostly from cows or goats, but also from buffaloes, sheep, horses, or camels – for human consumption.

New!!: Healthy eating pyramid and Dairy · See more »

Dietary supplement

A dietary supplement is a manufactured product intended to supplement the diet when taken by mouth as a pill, capsule, tablet, or liquid.

New!!: Healthy eating pyramid and Dietary supplement · See more »

Dieting

Dieting is the practice of eating food in a regulated and supervised fashion to decrease, maintain, or increase body weight, or to prevent and treat diseases, such as diabetes.

New!!: Healthy eating pyramid and Dieting · See more »

Egg as food

Eggs are laid by female animals of many different species, including birds, reptiles, amphibians, mammals, and fish, and have been eaten by humans for thousands of years.

New!!: Healthy eating pyramid and Egg as food · See more »

Exercise

Exercise is any bodily activity that enhances or maintains physical fitness and overall health and wellness.

New!!: Healthy eating pyramid and Exercise · See more »

Fish

Fish are gill-bearing aquatic craniate animals that lack limbs with digits.

New!!: Healthy eating pyramid and Fish · See more »

Food

Food is any substance consumed to provide nutritional support for an organism.

New!!: Healthy eating pyramid and Food · See more »

Food and Nutrition Service

The Food and Nutrition Service (FNS) is an agency of the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA).

New!!: Healthy eating pyramid and Food and Nutrition Service · See more »

Food Balance Wheel

The Food Balance Wheel suggests an alternate interpretation of the USDA Food Guide Pyramid recommendations for balanced eating.

New!!: Healthy eating pyramid and Food Balance Wheel · See more »

Food pyramid (nutrition)

A food pyramid or diet pyramid is a triangular diagram representing the optimal number of servings to be eaten each day from each of the basic food groups.

New!!: Healthy eating pyramid and Food pyramid (nutrition) · See more »

Fruit

In botany, a fruit is the seed-bearing structure in flowering plants (also known as angiosperms) formed from the ovary after flowering.

New!!: Healthy eating pyramid and Fruit · See more »

Functional food

A functional food is a food given an additional function (often one related to health-promotion or disease prevention) by adding new ingredients or more of existing ingredients.

New!!: Healthy eating pyramid and Functional food · See more »

Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health

The Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health (formerly Harvard School of Public Health) is the public health graduate school of Harvard University, located in the Longwood Medical Area of Boston, Massachusetts adjacent Harvard Medical School.

New!!: Healthy eating pyramid and Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health · See more »

Health food restaurant

A Health food restaurant is a restaurant that serves primarily, or exclusively, health foods, which may include vegetarian, vegan, raw, macrobiotic, organic, and low-fat menu options.

New!!: Healthy eating pyramid and Health food restaurant · See more »

Healthy diet

A healthy diet is a diet that helps to maintain or improve overall health.

New!!: Healthy eating pyramid and Healthy diet · See more »

Human nutrition

Human nutrition deals with the provision of essential nutrients in food that are necessary to support human life and health.

New!!: Healthy eating pyramid and Human nutrition · See more »

Legume

A legume is a plant or its fruit or seed in the family Fabaceae (or Leguminosae).

New!!: Healthy eating pyramid and Legume · See more »

List of diets

An individual's diet is the sum of food and drink that he or she habitually consumes.

New!!: Healthy eating pyramid and List of diets · See more »

MyPlate

MyPlate is the current nutrition guide published by the USDA Center for Nutrition Policy and Promotion, a food circle depicting a place setting with a plate and glass divided into five food groups.

New!!: Healthy eating pyramid and MyPlate · See more »

Nut (fruit)

A nut is a fruit composed of an inedible hard shell and a seed, which is generally edible.

New!!: Healthy eating pyramid and Nut (fruit) · See more »

Nutrient

A nutrient is a substance used by an organism to survive, grow, and reproduce.

New!!: Healthy eating pyramid and Nutrient · See more »

Nutrition

Nutrition is the science that interprets the interaction of nutrients and other substances in food in relation to maintenance, growth, reproduction, health and disease of an organism.

New!!: Healthy eating pyramid and Nutrition · See more »

Nutrition Education

Nutrition Education is any combination of educational strategies, accompanied by environmental supports, designed to facilitate voluntary adoption of food choices and other food- and nutrition-related behaviors conducive to health and well-being.

New!!: Healthy eating pyramid and Nutrition Education · See more »

Oatmeal

Oatmeal is made of hulled oat grains – groats – that have either been milled (ground), steel-cut, or rolled.

New!!: Healthy eating pyramid and Oatmeal · See more »

Obesity

Obesity is a medical condition in which excess body fat has accumulated to the extent that it may have a negative effect on health.

New!!: Healthy eating pyramid and Obesity · See more »

Olive oil

Olive oil is a liquid fat obtained from olives (the fruit of Olea europaea; family Oleaceae), a traditional tree crop of the Mediterranean Basin.

New!!: Healthy eating pyramid and Olive oil · See more »

Orthorexia nervosa

Orthorexia nervosa (also known as orthorexia) is a proposed eating disorder characterized by an excessive preoccupation with eating healthy food.

New!!: Healthy eating pyramid and Orthorexia nervosa · See more »

Pasta

Pasta is a staple food of traditional Italian cuisine, with the first reference dating to 1154 in Sicily.

New!!: Healthy eating pyramid and Pasta · See more »

Potato

The potato is a starchy, tuberous crop from the perennial nightshade Solanum tuberosum.

New!!: Healthy eating pyramid and Potato · See more »

Poultry

Poultry are domesticated birds kept by humans for their eggs, their meat or their feathers.

New!!: Healthy eating pyramid and Poultry · See more »

Red meat

In gastronomy, red meat is commonly red when raw and a dark color after it is cooked, in contrast to white meat, which is pale in color before and after cooking.

New!!: Healthy eating pyramid and Red meat · See more »

Refined grains

Refined grains, in contrast to whole grains, refers to grain products consisting of grains or grain flours that have been significantly modified from their natural composition.

New!!: Healthy eating pyramid and Refined grains · See more »

Saturated fat

A saturated fat is a type of fat in which the fatty acid chains have all or predominantly single bonds.

New!!: Healthy eating pyramid and Saturated fat · See more »

Soybean oil

Soybean oil is a vegetable oil extracted from the seeds of the soybean (Glycine max).

New!!: Healthy eating pyramid and Soybean oil · See more »

Sunflower oil

Sunflower oil is the non-volatile oil pressed from the seeds of sunflower (Helianthus annuus).

New!!: Healthy eating pyramid and Sunflower oil · See more »

United States Department of Agriculture

The United States Department of Agriculture (USDA), also known as the Agriculture Department, is the U.S. federal executive department responsible for developing and executing federal laws related to farming, forestry, and food.

New!!: Healthy eating pyramid and United States Department of Agriculture · See more »

Unsaturated fat

An unsaturated fat is a fat or fatty acid in which there is at least one double bond within the fatty acid chain.

New!!: Healthy eating pyramid and Unsaturated fat · See more »

Vegetable

Vegetables are parts of plants that are consumed by humans as food as part of a meal.

New!!: Healthy eating pyramid and Vegetable · See more »

Vegetable oil

Vegetable oils, or vegetable fats, are fats extracted from seeds, or less often, from other parts of fruits.

New!!: Healthy eating pyramid and Vegetable oil · See more »

White bread

White bread typically refers to breads made from wheat flour from which the bran and the germ layers have been removed (and set aside) from the whole wheatberry as part of the flour grinding or milling process, producing a light-colored flour.

New!!: Healthy eating pyramid and White bread · See more »

White rice

White rice is milled rice that has had its husk, bran, and germ removed.

New!!: Healthy eating pyramid and White rice · See more »

Whole grain

A whole grain is a grain of any cereal and pseudocereal that contains the endosperm, germ, and bran, in contrast to refined grains, which retain only the endosperm.

New!!: Healthy eating pyramid and Whole grain · See more »

Whole wheat bread

Whole wheat bread or wholemeal bread is a type of bread made using flour that is partly or entirely milled from whole or almost-whole wheat grains, see whole-wheat flour and whole grain.

New!!: Healthy eating pyramid and Whole wheat bread · See more »

5 A Day

5 A Day is any of various national campaigns in countries such as the United States, the United Kingdom, France, and Germany, to encourage the consumption of at least five portions of fruit and vegetables each day, following a recommendation by the World Health Organization that individuals consume "a minimum of 400g of fruit and vegetables per day (excluding potatoes and other starchy tubers)." A meta-analysis of the many studies of this issue was published in 2017 and found that consumption of double the minimum recommendation – 800g or 10 a day – provided an increased protection against all forms of mortality.

New!!: Healthy eating pyramid and 5 A Day · See more »

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Healthy_eating_pyramid

OutgoingIncoming
Hey! We are on Facebook now! »