Home > Terms > English, UK (UE) > Food pyramid

Food pyramid

A graphic aid to a healthy diet. The foodstuffs at the bottom of the pyramid are encouraged as being low calorie - high volume, and at the top; foods are placed that should not be consumed often, they being high calorie - low volume foods.

This is auto-generated content. You can help to improve it.
0
Improve it
  • Part of Speech: noun
  • Synonym(s):
  • Blossary:
  • Industry/Domain: Fitness
  • Category: Diet
  • Company:
  • Product:
  • Acronym-Abbreviation:
More
Collect to Blossary

Other Languages:

More

Member comments

You have to log in to post to discussions.

Related terms

food pyramid
Natural environment; Coral reefs

Pyramid-shaped diagram which shows feeding relationships within a food chain, e.g. That herbivores are smaller, more numerous and faster breeding than the predators that feed on ...

food pyramid
Biology; Cell biology

A way of depicting energy þow in an ecosystem; shows producers (mostly plants or other phototrophs) on the Þrst level and consumers on the higher levels.

food pyramid
Fitness; Diet

A graphic aid to a healthy diet. The foodstuffs at the bottom of the pyramid are encouraged as being low calorie - high volume, and at the top; foods are placed that should not be ...

food pyramid
Garden; Gardening

A theoretical graphic illustration showing the immense number of producer organisms at the base and the progressively decreasing numbers of herbivores and carnivores toward the ...

healthy planet food pyramid
Biology; Ecology

Lawrence Buzzell-Saltzman's model of sustainable consumption of local food. Focusing on where we get our food, the pyramid rests on three levels: first, from a neighborhood ...

pyramid
Retail; Supermarkets

A hand-stacked, triangular display.

Veggie Love
Fitness; Diet

A PETA vegetarian commercial that was supposed to be aired during the 2009 Super Bowl. The People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals wanted to promote vegetarianism by featuring ...

diet glasses
Fitness; Diet

Goggles that use computer wizardry and augmented reality to trick human senses and make the wearer feel more satisfied with smaller or less appealing snacks. The diet glasses use ...

MyPlate
Fitness; Diet

Promoted by the Obama administration, the MyPlate icon replaced 19 years of the food pyramid icon. The MyPlate icon was chosen as an easy way to remind people to be mindful of ...

17 Day Diet
Fitness; Diet

The 17 Day Diet is a diet created by Mike Moreno, a family medicine doctor based in San Diego, CA, USA. The book, titled after the same name as the diet, was also written by ...

DASH diet
Fitness; Diet

The DASH diet is promoted by physicians for people with hypertension (high blood pressure) or prehypertension. Studies sponsored by the National Institutes of Health have shown ...

raw-food diet
Fitness; Diet

This is a vegan variant diet that encourages the non-cooking of vegetables, grains, pulses, etc. It can lead to protein deficiency. (See Vegan, and Proteins).

Terms in the News

Featured Terms

Harry8L
  • 0

    Terms

  • 0

    Blossaries

  • 1

    Followers

Industry/Domain: Entertainment Category: TV

Zero TV homes

A term coined by the TV ratings company Nielsen to describe families that have stopped paying for cable and satellite TV service, and don't even use ...

Contributor

Featured blossaries

Apple Mergers and Acquisitions

Category: Technology   4 20 Terms

Labud Zagreb

Category: Business   1 23 Terms

Browers Terms By Category

TERMS

SOCIAL

EXTRAS

SOLUTIONS