The food pyramid updated

I was looking about for nutrition information this morning and when I Googled "nutrition information" the first Web site that came up is that of the government, under the well-known guise of the food pyramid. It's pretty good! You can plug in your own information and it spits out what you should eat to stay the same weight and what you should eat to lose weight. It doesn't so much give you a menu as it gives you amount you should eat in a day or a week.

The good news is that it tells you to alternate the colors of vegetables on your plate and gives equal balance to root vegetables as to green vegetables (I looooove root veggies). It also has a pretty low number of carbohydrates you should have. But the bad news is that it almost completely sidelines oils and fats—they have it marked as the skinniest color on the food pyramid (which looks more like a food rainbow in a pyramid shape) and the amount of information matches the narrowness of the dietary allowances. As if you shouldn't have any. In fact, the information there is really egregiously poor and minimal. But the rest of it is good for thise just starting out learning about nutrition.