the new food pyramid<\/a><\/p>\n after the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services recently announced changes.<\/p>\n
Registered dietitian Brittany Twiss at Sanford Health in Fargo says the new recommendations promote foods that cost more and might not fit in the budget for most people.<\/p>\n
She says this food pyramid is more confusing than the MyPlate model, which was used as a guide since the old food pyramid was retired in 2011.<\/p>\n
The new food pyramid emphasizes whole foods like vegetables, fruits, animal-based proteins, dairy and healthy fats, while de-emphasizing grains, shifting away from MyPlate\u2019s balanced portions of fruits, vegetables, grains, protein and dairy.<\/p>\n
However, she notes, \u201cThe focus more on animal fat and animal proteins. That creates quite a bit of confusion with patients and among my fellow peers as well,\u201d Twiss said.<\/p>\n
Twiss says she hopes more efforts can go into making fruits and vegetables more affordable and accessible.<\/p>\n
\n Kjersti Maday joined WDAY as a reporter in May of 2024. She is a native of Granada, Minnesota and graduated from Minnesota State University Moorhead in 2015.\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"FARGO \u2014 A local dietitian is weighing in on the new food pyramid after the U.S. Department of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":410133,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[61],"tags":[97,269],"class_list":{"0":"post-410132","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nutrition","8":"tag-health","9":"tag-nutrition"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/410132","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=410132"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/410132\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/410133"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=410132"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=410132"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=410132"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}