NYU’s Institute of Public Knowledge is hosting the launch of Practicing Food Studies, edited by Amy Bentley, Fabio Parasecoli, and Krishnendu Ray. I wrote the Foreword. We will all provide brief perspectives on our quarter century of teaching food studies. For information and registration, click here. For 30% off on the book, click here.
by Marion Nestle
Sep
15
2011
Harvard plate v. USDA MyPlate: an improvement?
Scientists from the Harvard School of Public Health have come up with a new Healthy Eating Plate as an alternative to USDA’s MyPlate released last June.
For an explanation, see the Harvard group’s press release. Harvard intends this as an explicit challenge to the USDA’s version:
Recall my deconstruction of the USDA plate when it first came out.
I’d love to hear what you think of the Harvard version.
Is it better? Likely to be more effective?
Weigh in, please.