Should Guidelines For Weekend And Holiday Eating Be Incorporated Into Food Pyramid?

No.

"The holidays can be challenging for even the most diligent dieters. But are weekends just as detrimental? Researchers at the University of Pittsburgh and Quinnipiac University in Hamden, Conn., found that weekend eating patterns change significantly.

J. Jeffrey Inman, a University of Pittsburgh professor of marketing and associate dean for research in the Joseph M. Katz Graduate School of Business, and his coauthor, Adwait Khare, Quinnipiac University professor of marketing, studied two years' worth of data on consumers' eating behavior and found that the quantity and quality of foods eaten during a meal and over the course of the day differs considerably on weekends and holidays."

This will make things needlessly more complicated.

Just eat the proper number of Calories daily.

Eat fewer than you burn to lose weight.

Eat more than you burn to gain weight.

Eat the number you burn to keep your weight stable.

Make life easier by making consumption of the right amount of Calories routine.