The new dietary guidelines will be used to update the familiar food pyramid, which most people recognize but few heed. That revision, expected in the next couple of months, would be the pyramid's ...

Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said that he is putting common sense and nutrition into a new version of the food pyramid. Kennedy said he wants nutrition guidelines that ...

Photo: Food pyramid, 1992–2005; USDAments Yes, the average American is much wealthier—and thus able to purchase a greater amount of calories—than his or her counterpart would have been in 1980.