Last week was the one year anniversary for the USDA MyPyramid food guidance system. Apparently the website has received a huge amount of traffic making it “one of the most popular federal websites ever.”

Agriculture Secretary Mike Johanns says the inagural success of My Pyramid will be built upon in its second year with a variety of improvements and outreach programs. You can listen to him describe the future for the program in this report from USDA Radio News: Mike Johanns MyPyramid Story (1 min MP3)

I guess I have to wonder why we have an obesity chrisis in America with all this good nutrition information and so many people accessing it.