The food guide pyramid is a guideline created by the us department of agriculture to encourage americans to make healthy choices and to eat a balanced diet. how does the food pyramid accomplish these goals? do you think the food guide pyramid is effective? why or why not?

The food pyramid gives a simple and visually appealing guideline that enables people to easily see how much of different key food groups they should be eating. It encourages healthy eating but emphasising the smaller quantity of fats and larger quantity of carbohydrates one should eat, for example. It is effective, but the weakness is that food packaging is not always labelled well enough for us to know the exact nutritional content.