Jessica Knurick
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So we have dietary guidelines that come out every five years.
That's mandated.
It's a group of scientists that get together.
They work on a scientific report for two years, and then they present it to the USDA and HHS.
And then we have new dietary guidelines that come out.
So those two departments kind of work on it together.
And there's always a visual representation of the dietary guidelines.
The original one was the food pyramid.
In 2005, that changed to something called MyPyramid that no one knows about, but it was a very confusing pyramid, even more confusing than the first one.
And then in 2011, under the Obama administration, we got MyPlate.
And so that was a plate that had half your plate, fruits and vegetables, a grains group, a protein
and then milk.
It feels intuitive because that's how you eat.
And as someone who taught nutrition.
It's easy to teach too.