Updates To Food Guide Pyramid For Older Adults

They needed an update for this? What were they thinking before?

"Tufts University researchers have updated their Food Guide Pyramid for Older Adults to correspond with the USDA food pyramid, now known as MyPyramid. The Tufts version is specifically designed for older adults...The Modified MyPyramid for Older Adults continues to emphasize nutrient-dense food choices and the importance of fluid balance, but has added additional guidance about forms of foods that could best meet the unique needs of older adults and about the importance of regular physical activity."

Here is something really deep to step in:

"'Older adults tend to need fewer calories as they age because they are not as physically active as they once were and their metabolic rates slow down. Nevertheless, their bodies still require the same or higher levels of nutrients for optimal health outcomes..."

Everybody needs fewer Calories when they are "not as physically active as they once were."

This includes college students, fat parents setting fat examples for their fat children, legislators, fat Oprah, thin runway models, Tufts researchers. Everybody includes everybody.

Then the researchers go on to the "optimal health" spiel.

They would not know what is required for "optimal health" if it bit them in their stupid faces.

"Optimal" is a fantasy concept. It is the result of limited and lagging indicators with no proven predictive value or definition that will clearly vary from person to person.

It is bull and a way to con the public into believing the crap spouted by lunatics with a platform.

"The Modified MyPyramid for Older Adults will be published in the January 2008 issue of the Journal of Nutrition."

Another sad part.

They will be killing trees to disseminate this garbage.

Your tax dollars hard at work.

"This study was supported by a grant from the Ross Initiative on Aging at Tufts University and the US Department of Agriculture (USDA)."