Do you known that My Pyramid Plan provides a tool for you to create a unique diet plan based on age, sex, amount of physical activity? All you have to do is go to http://www.mypyramid.gov, plug-in your statistics into the plan box, hit submit, and you are shown choices of foods, and amounts that are right for you, including the number of calories for your plan.
A printable worksheet is available for you to document daily food intake and physical activity to enter into the tracker. Don’t rely on your memory to recall this information. You’ll short-change yourself.
My Pyramid Plan also features My Pyramid Tracker, an online dietary and physical assessment tool that provides information on the quality of diet and physical activity. It also provides related information on nutrients and physical activity.
The information you provide about your food intake and physical activity is compared to nutritional and physical recommendations respectively. Daily scores are formulated and remain accessible for up to one year, to give you a good idea of how well your doing.
My Pyramid Plan is the nutritionist you don’t have to pay. Clicking on a food group reveals how to utilize that food group, including what is best to eat, and what would be better to avoid. Try it for a month and see your energy levels improve.
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February 25, 2007 at 3:39 pm
I think the customized pyramid plan is a great idea. I also suspect it would work well in a calorie restricted diet. This diet, which requires a caloric intake of 1,500 or fewer calories a day, is based on research where mice whose caloric intake was reduced by 30% lived 25% longer.
If you’re interested, I have a post on calorie restricted diets on my blog, http://lifeextension.wordpress.com.