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The Edible Pyramid: Good Eating Every Day

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I am a first grade teacher in Indiana. I used this book with my students when studying the food pyramid. It was a big success. The illustrations were very bright and kept the students attention! The text idea of the restaurant was fun for the children. Their most favorite part was trying to figure out what the creature was that kept trying to get some food. Look and see if you can guess!!!

Please forgive me for the 5 star review since I'm the author and illustrator of this book, but I am very enthusiastic about it. It has been revised to reflect the USDA's new MyPyramid program which is designed to educate children about their food choices and encourage them to be active every day. I combined four of the original Grains pages into one spread to allow room for a new 2-page spread about exercise. In regards to a very negative review below, people in cultures all over the world have included foods from the various food groups in their diets and have enjoyed good health. It is important for children to become familiar with a wide variety of food choices and to understand what is a vegetable, what is a fruit, what is a grain, and so on. Happy eating and reading!
Loreen Leedy

This book was great. Thanks so much. The packaging was also great! Thank you thank you thank you ! ! ! ! ! ! ! !

I ordered this book for my kids at school but found it helpful in opeing the door with my own children. Easy to read and good pictures.

This old book is based on the highly flawed 1992 FDA Food Pyramid. The CDC documented the rise in American obesity in direct response to the publication and propigation of the Food Pyramid. In 2005, the FDA recanted their obsolete unhealthy information (with diabetes-causing high glycemic index foods at the foundation of the old Food Pyramid).

This book should be banned and replaced with modern healthy food information to stem the deadly tide of childhood obesity, diabetes and heart disease. This book is still being promoted by Lavar Burton on The Reading Rainbow on public television. Its message is harming the mindset and bodies of many innocent children, by setting bad habits at an early age.

Vegetables are secondary in this book. Today, the FDA places much more emphasis on healthy fruits and vegatables.

Larry Hartweg
Chief Editor of JoyfulAging.com

I was surprised that on the, "Dry Beans & Nuts" page of this book, peanuts were listed as a nut. Maybe the author wanted to teach that peanuts can be a source of protein, but I don't like the idea of teaching inaccurate information! These days, people learn that nuts grow on trees, that peanuts are not nuts and they grow under the ground. Has the author read any food allergy articles describing peanuts as a legume related to the pea or bean? Or her editor? Fortunately, peanuts were listed close to the "Dry Beans" list, because other legumes such as peas and lentils were also listed.