{"id":959827,"date":"2026-11-05T23:12:09","date_gmt":"2026-11-05T23:12:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/959827\/"},"modified":"2026-11-05T23:12:09","modified_gmt":"2026-11-05T23:12:09","slug":"new-food-pyramid-what-it-recommends-eating","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/959827\/","title":{"rendered":"New Food Pyramid: What It Recommends Eating"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Routhenstein told Healthline that <a href=\"https:\/\/pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/articles\/PMC6089671\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" class=\"content-link css-kxhged\">research<\/a> consistently shows that plant-forward eating patterns, including the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.healthline.com\/nutrition\/mediterranean-diet-meal-plan\" class=\"content-link css-kxhged\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Mediterranean<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.healthline.com\/nutrition\/dash-diet\" class=\"content-link css-kxhged\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">DASH<\/a> diets, are associated with better cardiovascular health and a lower risk of heart disease.<\/p>\n<p>Plant foods provide fiber, potassium, antioxidants, and other beneficial compounds that can help support healthy cholesterol levels, blood pressure, blood sugar, and blood vessel function.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is not to say that protein and fat are unimportant, but their sources matter,\u201d Routhenstein said. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Routhenstein told Healthline that research consistently shows that plant-forward eating patterns, including the Mediterranean and DASH diets, are&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":959828,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[49,48,84,395],"class_list":["post-959827","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nutrition","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-health","tag-nutrition"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/959827","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=959827"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/959827\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/959828"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=959827"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=959827"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=959827"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}