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Food pyramid

History of USDA’s Food Guidance
1940s
1950s-1960s
1970s
1992
2005
Food for
Young
Children
1916

Walter Willett’s Healthy food index

Evaluating adherence to
recommended diets in adults: the
Alternate Healthy Eating Index
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Marjorie L McCullough and Walter C Willett
Public Health Nutrition: 9(1A), 152–157.

Introduction
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We have evaluated the Dietary Guidelines for
Americans using a scoring system called the
Healthy Eating Index developed by the
Department of Agriculture to quantify
adherence to these guidelines.
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We found that adherence to the Dietary
Guidelines and the Food Guide Pyramid was
associated with only a small reduction in
major chronic disease risk in a population of
over 100,000 US adult men and women.

Alternate Healthy Eating Index
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We also assessed whether an alternate
index, which took into account the type of fat
and quality of carbohydrate, would better
predict risk.
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In contrast with the original Healthy Eating
Index, adherence to the alternative index