Harvard's Healthy Eating Plate nutrition guidelines

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see the Harvard School of Public Health's new (Sept. 2011) healthy eating guidelines herehttp://www.hsph.harvard.edu/nutritionsource/healthy-eating-plate/from care2: The Harvard School of Public Health sent a strong message to the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) and nutrition experts everywhere with the recent release of its “Healthy Eating Plate†food guide. Liora: The USDA's Food Plate replaces my generation's "Food Pyrimid" but the Harvard group has more specific and actually much, much better guidelines.

Harvard’s nutrition experts did not pull punches, declaring that the university’s food guide was based on sound nutrition research and more importantly, not influenced by food industry lobbyists. The greatest evidence of its research focus is the absence of dairy products

from the “Healthy Eating Plate†based on Harvard’s assessment that “…high intake can increase the risk of prostate cancer and possibly ovarian cancer.†The Harvard experts also referred to the high levels of saturated fat in most dairy products and suggested that collards, bok

choy, fortified soy milk, and baked beans are safer choices than dairy for obtaining calcium, as are high quality supplements.for a good comparison between the USDA's plate and the Harvard plate, see herehttp://www.hsph.harvard.edu/nutritionsource/healthy-eating-plate/healthy-eating-plate-vs-usda-myplate/