Back in ’06, just before I ran the Rock ‘n’ Roll Half-Marathon here in Virginia Beach, I created a replacement of the USDA‘s food pyramid. Mark Sisson even used that original version in one of his posts: Sisson Says: Don’t “Loaf” Around. I had actually forgotten about it until I stumbled across Mark’s post. I could not find the original image I used and the one on Mark’s site is a bit degraded… and I really hated the font I used. So I recreated it…

The Paleo Pyramid

I just recreated this version using the same design as my first. Though thinking on it a bit, I might have changed a couple things. Specifically, rather put vegetables and fruits on the same level, I think I should’ve put vegetables as its own level just above meat. Then I would’ve made nuts, berries, and fruits vertical groups of the same size to fill the rest of the space — you know how the “new” USDA MyPyramid looks with the vertical slices for each group? That’s what I have in mind. Also, if I had more accurately represented the calorie distribution I’m aiming for, the meat group should’ve been much larger. Oh well… this should still be better than what the USDA is pushing on society now.