The food pyramid is economic bullshit designed to keep the
food industry from bitching at the government for telling
us the truth about nutrition.

Eat enough protein (about 0.8g/kg bodyweight per day) and
enough calories to meet your basal metabolic rate plus
exercise expenditure, then use a multivitamin to keep
yourself in balance (excess vitamins don't hurt unless
it's like 2000% of your RDA).

If you want to lose weight, reduce your food intake
or increase your exercise until your input is 500 calories
less than you output. You'll lose a pound a week. If you
make your calorie deficit too large, you'll lose muscle
before you lose fat (your body goes into "starvation mode"
where it dumps muscle to reduce your basal metabolic rate
to conserve energy-rich fat so you can survive what it
thinks is a famine) so don't go stupid when dieting.

Other than that, eat what you want. I shed 40 lbs on
beer and buffalo wings and vitamins.

--Blair
"FDA = fooling de public again."