WASHINGTON (AP) — There's a new U.S. symbol for healthful eating: The Agriculture Department unveiled "My Plate" on Thursday, abandoning the food pyramid that had guided many Americans but merely ...

Lynchburg, VA - It's a shape that for years was a guide to healthy eating, but now the food pyramid is being retired. The Department of Agriculture used the symbol for almost 20 years, but health ...

The United States Department of Agriculture has finally retired its complicated, weird-looking nutrition pyramid in favor of a plate-shaped diagram called MyPlate meant to simplify the message: Make ...

Remember that food pyramid you learned about in grade school and kept seeing around the place? Well, it’s outta here. The United States Department of Agriculture has launched a new visual icon — it’s ...

The Agriculture Department says "My Plate," its new healthy eating symbol, aims to show that nutrition doesn't have to be complicated. "My Plate" — a simple circle divided into quadrants that contain ...

Here’s a quick quiz: What took the place of the food pyramid, the government guide to healthy eating that stood for nearly 20 years? If you’re stumped, you’re not alone. More than a decade after ...

The familiar Food Guide Pyramid just got an overhaul in the form of a plate. The old pyramid format, while pretty and colorful, was confusing with its jumble of food groups. The USDA recently ...

After almost 20 years, the food pyramid has been relinquished. Instead, the U.S. Department of Agriculture released on Thursday its new version of the food pyramid with MyPlate, a visual tool based on ...

Unsatisfied with the old Food Pyramid (above), the daily intake guide that food producers created, our health conscious First Lady Michelle Obama and the U.S. Department of Agriculture have launched a ...

You've got to hand it to Barry: while we've been distracted by how he's steered this country in the wrong directions fiscally and socially, he's taken aim for our ...