Quoted: Nate Wood

Yale School of Medicine

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“Everyone wants to look at the picture [of the upside-down pyramid], but the picture might lead you astray. I would look at the document. . . . The dietary guidelines are actually okay and helpful in a lot of different ways, largely because they don’t differ too terribly much in many ways from previous guidelines.” 

—Nate Wood, assistant professor and director of culinary medicine at the School of Medicine, in a January 20 Connecticut Public Radio story about the new food pyramid and dietary guidelines released in January by the federal government. Wood suggested that the prominent placement of red meat and saturated fats in the pyramid “doesn’t really reflect the guidelines.”