A new food pyramid

Want to feel guilty? Here is a new alternative to the traditional Food Pyramid for kids.

http://www.kidshealth.org/kid/stay_healthy/food/go_slow_whoa.html

Instead of having interesting classifications of food into dairy, grains, meat, etc, they've simplified it for kids, and for we morons who feed them, into just three categories: "Go, Slow, and WHOA!"

It reminds me of the book What to Expect when You're Expecting, wherein they advise that SOMETIMES pregnant women should indulge themselves with something sweet. They suggest a fruit-juice-sweetened whole-grain muffin.

Let me tell you, as a product of approximately 14 years of GO food enforced by the Food Nazi that was my father, I'm in no better health than you are. Except I'm that much more likely to see sugar as a reward for good behavior.

The whole thing makes me want to go and make a big batch of crusciki.