Youve heard about it when you were in school, but you really didnt pay too much attention to it. Theres been some talk about it recently but again you just didnt have the time to give your full attention to it. Now however, you have enough time on your hands, and besides your kids need help with their schoolwork so youll need to learn all about it. What am I talking about? The Food Guide Pyramid of course.
Sometime late in the early mists of science some genius or early nutritionist stumbled across the magical fact that humans needed food to live. This same person also deduced quite rightly that some foods were more important than others. And taking things one step further, this genius saw that even from amongst these categories the foods would again be divided into sections where some of these foods should only be taken in smaller quantities.
At a guess this person probably came up with a complex table or matrix from which to describe the proper daily intake of food for a person in the course of one day. But as will happen, through some method we have instead ended up not with a table or matrix but with the Food Guide Pyramid that graces all doctors offices...