Keep the food pyramid but make it more understandable, food industry and consumer group officials told a panel of Agriculture Department officials on Thursday. The department is revising its ...

Grains, wholegrains, and cereals: rich in carbohydrates, calcium, iron and vitamin B, fibre. These are the foods that should be eaten most. Eat three to six servings a day.

Beneath it are dairy, eggs, fish and chicken, followed by red meat and butter at the lowest end. Outside the pyramid is a circle labelled ‘sentenced to sit’ (in Flemish), filled with processed ...