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Stone Yamashita fixes the new food pyramid in Slate.

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4 comments to “Four Servings of Design”

  1. Comment by Simon McGarr:
    Friday, April 29th 2005 at 5:53 pm

    Sorry to sound negative for once, but I don’t think that the circles worked. It clearly a venn diagram- but what do the overlapping sections represent?

  2. Comment by Baz:
    Sunday, May 1st 2005 at 1:22 pm

    I didn’t think the “It takes time…” spiel added anything either, other than a vaguely preachy tone.

    The spiral was way too busy to read, though it might work on a larger scale.

    In my opinion the best was the first slied, the square blocks, which best represented the quantitative data, and also worked well for individual food labels.

  3. Comment by Dervala:
    Sunday, May 1st 2005 at 11:30 pm

    Hmm, I don’t think the overlapping circles are meant to be a venn diagram; I think they’re just meant to be servings on a plate.

    I admit I found the digestion spiral hard to follow, too, at least at that size, but I thought the plate was clear and attractive (apart from those pesky venn diagram overlaps ;-)

  4. Comment by Jane:
    Tuesday, May 3rd 2005 at 10:03 pm

    The Harvard School of Public Health offers a critique of the new USDA pyramid and creates a Healthy Eating Pyramid here http://www.hsph.harvard.edu/nutritionsource/pyramids.html (in an authentic pyramid shape, phew!)