Fats, sugar and "junk" foods have been eliminated from Nutrition Australia's pyramid.
Finally we have a new food pyramid.
Hip, hip, hooray was the cry of many a nutritional professional on Monday with the release of a new food pyramid after more than 15 years. Traditionally the food pyramid has been used as an educational tool to aid in the understanding of the relative importance of different foods in achieving dietary balance. The issue with this was that for many years breads and cereals filled primary space on our food pyramid.
And as many health professionals started to realise that not only did this not make sense from a calorie and nutrient perspective but as we observed more and more people gaining weight as a result of diets rich in processed carbs, this original education tool became obsolete.