First Lady Michelle Obama today unveiled the USDA's update on America's visual nutrition guide, replacing the familiar - and much maligned - pyramid with a plate. The food pyramid has been around ...

The new image more closely reflects what dieticians ... colors—not to mention a more relatable visual object, the plate—the new guide is much easier to understand than the pyramid. The food pyramid ...

The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) abandoned the food pyramid today in favor of a simple icon: A plate. The government hopes this new image will coax Americans to fill their plates with ...

They explained that changing your dinner plate "starts with changing your idea of what a plateful of healthy food should look like". They added: "To eat healthy foods at home, it might be easier ...

The federal government has unveiled the new food plate, replacing the decades ... with the USDA asking consumers to take photos of their plates and tweet them out with the hashtag #MyPlate or ...

In both experiments, we included test stimuli with seven food portion sizes (images were sized to 170, 175, 180, 185, 190, 195 and 200 pixels in diameter) on plates with varying rim ...