الهرم الغذائي العربي إطار موحَّد للرسائل الصحية الغذائية

There are several ways to present nutritional health messages, particularly pyramidic indices, but they have many deficiencies such as, lack of agreement on a unified or clear methodology for food grouping and ignoring nutritional group inter-relation and integration. This causes confusion for health educators and target individuals. This paper presents an Arabian food pyramid that aims to unify the bases of nutritional health messages, bringing together the function, contents, source and nutritional group servings and indicating the inter-relation and integration of nutritional groups. This provides comprehensive, integrated, simple and flexible health messages