Nutrition

Government computerizes calorie plan

Published in Medical Letter on the CDC and FDA, March 14th, 2004

The U.S. government's Food Guide Pyramid cannot cover everyone, so federal dietary planners want people to build their own version. The Agriculture Department office that manages the pyramid is fitting its web site to help people tailor individual programs for diet and exercise as part of a food guide policy that will offer more room for variation.

"The Food Guide Pyramid was viewed as being for everybody, but it wasn't related to the individual," said Eric Hentges, executive director of the department's Center for Nutrition Policy and Health Promotion. "If people wanted to make a change, they didn't see how they could use our food guidance to make the change."

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