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Following today's release of updated Dietary Guidelines for Americans, the ubiquitous food pyramid will need to be revised accordingly. Perhaps, as our recent Project to Design a Better Food Pyramid suggested, it should be scrapped and replaced with something else altogether. Although the USDA has used a pyramid graphic to communicate its nutrition advice since 1992, other countries around the world have embraced dietary guidelines in the form of a plate, a set of stairs, a pagoda, and even a rainbow. And, of course, the specific foodstuffs depicted, and even the quantities of each required for a healthy diet, vary by country, culture, and cuisines. Check out this slideshow to see what a healthy diet looks like around the world.
Several dietary guidelines graphics were found via the European Food Information Council; the rest came from each country's own government health page. For more food pyramid coverage on GOOD, check out our design competition brief and its winning entries, as well as this proposal for a double pyramid that includes environmental as well as human health.