Federal officials are replacing the food pyramid with a full plate — and while experts say that the new approach is an imperfect solution, it's a vast improvement on the much-maligned My Pyramid.

The federal government unveiled its new food icon, MyPlate, to serve as a reminder to help consumers make healthier food choices on June 2, 2011.

Arriving in the midst of an obesity epidemic, a new at-a-glance government guide to healthful eating is meant to remind consumers to limit heavy foods and beef up on the greens.

PICTURES - Bye-bye pyramid, hello plate: Timeline of food guidelines. The food pyramid has been around since 1992, but nutrition experts don't seem to be mourning its demise.

So long, pyramid. Welcome, MyPlate! First Lady Michelle Obama unveiled on Thursday the government’s new symbol for healthy eating, a colorful plate divided into the basic food groups, which will ...

Step aside, pyramid. Make way for the plate. The USDA is unveiling its new and improved nutrition guidelines graphic. Its designed to help consumers better visualize what it means to eat healthier.

The nearly 20-year-old food pyramid will soon give way to a new symbol. ... Speculation is that dinner plate will take over for decades-old pyramid. By ABC News. May 31, 2011, 3:16 PM.

PITTSBURGH (KDKA) -- Remember the food pyramid? Well, it's history. Welcome "the plate." The First Lady, Surgeon General and the Agriculture Secretary unveiled the government's new tool to help ...