The 5 Food Groups: How To Eat a Balanced Diet
We all remember that project in third grade, where we had to cut out pictures of food from various magazines and glue them on large triangles of construction paper. What were we making? The food pyramid!  While the food groups, serving sizes, and proportions have changed slightly throughout the years, the point of the food pyramid and similar diagrams have remained the same: To act as a simple guide for getting all the nutrients you need through a balanced diet. With so many fad diets around these days, what does the standard balanced diet actually look like? Let’s talk it...