[IAEP] Sugar Digest 2012-04-12

[Jonas Smedegaard]

On 12-04-14 at 12:38pm, Chris Leonard wrote:
> 2012/4/14 Walter Bender <walter.bender at gmail.com>:
> > On Sat, Apr 14, 2012 at 11:19 AM, Chris Leonard 
> > <cjlhomeaddress at gmail.com> wrote:
> >> On Fri, Apr 13, 2012 at 5:29 PM, Walter Bender 
> >> <walter.bender at gmail.com> wrote:
> >>
> >>> During the conversation with the learning team, the topic of 
> >>> nutrition came up. FZT is working with USAID on a nutrition 
> >>> curriculum. We discussed ways to integrate the curriculum into 
> >>> Sugar, by or example, using the Turtle Art [1]. I was inspired by 
> >>> our discussion of the Food Pyramid, so on the flight back to 
> >>> Boston, I wrote a new activity, [2]. What is potentially fun about 
> >>> it is that not only can you explore the precompiled database of 
> >>> foods, but you can also load your own foods into the database. So, 
> >>> for example, a child could take a photo (using Record) or draw a 
> >>> picture (using Paint) of dinner, and then load that food into the 
> >>> activity.
> >>
> >> Walter, the Food Pyramid is so 10 minutes ago :-)
> >>
> >> Almost a year ago the USDA guidelines changed to the MyPlate 
> >> iconography.
> >>
> >> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MyPlate
> >
> > I should probably change my formula for a balanced meal. (I had been 
> > going by the material prepared in .NI based on USAID curricula.) 
> > Thanks.
> 
> That is not to say that the USDA recommendations are necessarily right 
> for every one, even within the US there is criticism that they are 
> overly influenced by the agribiz concerns that have great political 
> influence.
> 
> Of course, leave to folks from Boston to propose an alternative, the 
> Harvard Healthy Eating Plate.
> 
> http://www.hsph.harvard.edu/nutritionsource/healthy-eating-plate/healthy-eating-plate-vs-usda-myplate/index.html

Somewhat related, for those interested in RDF and semantic web, here is 
a SPARQL interface for the USDA data (and, if we move on the 
collaboration that we've briefly discussed via email recently, also some 
european databases I am looking at codifying):

  http://semanticdiet.com/


 - Jonas

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