The pyramid I know? For what it's worth, the pyramid shown on the cover of the book you mention is quite different from the one I know best. The one I use goes

The pyramid I know? For what it's worth, the pyramid shown on the cover of the book you mention is quite different from the one I know best. The one I use goes like this, from base to tip: 1. fruits, vegetables, lentils, wholegrain bread 2. rice, oats, fish, oil, margarine, yogurt, milk, pasta 3. meat, eggs, cheese, white bread 4. sugar, candy, sausages, pastry, butter I have no doubt that it is possible to build a food pyramid wrong, but again, the idea seems entirely reasonable, so it should be possible to build one that's actually useful. What I'm curious about is if this belief is fundamentally flawed and food pyramids are just a poor way to convey nutritional advice (for a reason I'm not seeing at the moment), or if the idea itself is perfectly fine and all this criticism is being made with regard to some particular misguided pyramid (which I might not be all that familiar with, seeing as multiple variations of 'the pyramid' exist, some of which might be way better than the others).