Latin American Diet Pyramid Gets Update

BOSTONCoinciding with National Hispanic Heritage Month, Oldways and the Latino Nutrition released Latino LivingA Guide to Better Health Through Traditional Food and Active Lifestyles, for both consumers and health professionals.

The free consumer kit includes a 7-day Healthy Latino Meal Plan with recipes and grocery list; a bilingual Latino Lifestyle Calendar featuring a tip each day for following the healthy Latin American diet; and the new illustrated bilingual Latin American Diet Pyramid with guidelines for planning daily meals. The updated pyramid promotes eating even more fruits and vegetables, eating fish or seafood at least twice a week, participating in physical activity, and enjoying meals with friends and family. A special emphasis was placed on some of the specific flavors of the Latin American diet such as chiles, cilantro, epazote, yucca, tomatillos, garlic, onions and more.