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Back to Journal  « Rejectee/Rejector | Food Pyramids | Your Marriage is Not Threatened » Food Pyramids July 9, 2004 (Selected republication of old entries from the pre-Movable Type journal... from before the revised USDA pyramid anyway...) An Atkins ad put the "Atkins Lifestyle Food Guide Pyramid" on the back cover of Utne magazine this month. I know it's an ad and not an endorsement by the alternative press, but it still makes me shake my head when even local healthfood and organic stores think it's important to remind us that eggs are low in carbs. While any group of monkeys given a few days with a typewriter could come up with a better alternative to the traditional "6-11 servings of the bread group per day" USDA food pyramid, a drastic reduction in all carbs and an overemphasis on protein aren't particularly helpful to those who want to live healthier lifestyles and not just lose the ability to store water in their bodies. Yes, we all probably eat and/or drink too many bad carbs. But some carbohydrates are necessary and some carbs are good carbs, even when you're trying to lose weight. Recognizing that even fewer people read this site than read Utne, (and that no single diet fits every lifestyle or liver perfectly), I thought I'd post some other alternatives to the well-publicized ones above, if only to help these pages out in the Google rankings. The Harvard School of Public Health--one of the best in the nation, which I only know because my wife just finished her Masters of Public Health at another top school in the field [end brag]--has created what they call the Healthy Eating Pyramid based on "the best available scientific evidence about the links between diet and health." The site details the differences between their pyramid and the USDA one, why they are different, and the specific reasons behind each choice. If you only read one action-packed food pyramid this year, this is it! OldWays, which bills itself as the "Food Issues Think Tank," hosts a pretty good overview of four other relatively healthy food pyramids: Mediterranian, Vegetarian, Asian, and Latin American. Worth a look. Filed under Journal, World of Importance  
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Alex Wilson writes fiction and comics in Carrboro, NC. His work has appeared/will appear in Asimov's Science Fiction, The Rambler, Weird Tales, The Florida Review, Futurismic, Shimmer, ChiZine, FutureQuake, Pif, and Dragon. Locus Magazine has called him a "promising new writer," and Publishers Weekly also has nice things to say. Alex runs the audiobook project/podcast Telltale Weekly and the writer wiki Guidevines. He publishes the minicomic/zine Inconsequential Art. He is a 2006 Clarion graduate.  
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