The pyramid is designed to drive consumers to the site, which offers personalized eating plans. The food industry responded enthusiastically, with promises to put the new symbol on product labels ...

It was taught in schools, displayed on food labels, and proliferated through every major media outlet. Unfortunately, the food pyramid was flawed from the start. It was also used as the basis ...

For more on the new Food Guide Pyramid — as well as guidance on reading food labels — tune in Monday, April 25, to the “Today” show to hear Phil’s special report. Phil Lempert is food ...

Yet many federal efforts, such as the heavily criticized and now-defunct food pyramid, have not worked ... “healthy” and proposing new nutrition labels that would appear on the front of ...

Think food pyramid, nutrition labels on food packages and how diet affects health. Now meet Helen Denning Ullrich, a pioneer nutrition educator who was a leader in shaping how consumers today ...

In an industry that lives and dies by labels, "it doesn't take much ... grain foods would be pushed to the top of the pyramid as the least-recommended food group. That would be another blow ...

The U.S. Agriculture Department has revised the familiar food pyramid, hoping to make it simpler ... be simpler if only the graphic included some labels that indicated what each color stands ...

This year, with most Americans overweight or obese and at risk of high blood pressure, policymakers are working to reinvent the familiar food pyramid ... on the nutrition labels of food packages.

Your pyramid scheme joke here ... Because nobody wants to be reminded of Bernie Madoff when they're reading their food labels.

It may be time to swap the sweets for sticker books and get out the bikes ... it has drafted a new children's food pyramid to show what children that age should be eating and what portion sizes ...

The US government’s Food Pyramid and manufacturers’ food labels are helping Americans change their eating habits. A Wall Street Journal poll shows that 40% of adults use them to follow ...