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August 21

USDA nutrition guide

how can you follow this guideline can someone please help me understand this on what foods its recommending?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Healthy_diet#United_States_Department_of_Agriculture 124.148.101.64 (talk) 03:46, 21 August 2022 (UTC)[reply]

There were also questions to explain health guidelines here:

Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Miscellaneous/2020 February 9 § Maintain healthy body weight.
Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Science/2020 February 21 § Scientific guidelines for diet
Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Miscellaneous/2020 January 25 § Convenience food
Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Miscellaneous/2022 August 6 § Limit intake of juices and milk

Are you the same user who asked these questions? Maybe you are attaching too much weight to such guidelines. When guidelines recommend following a healthy lifestyle, please understand that there are many lifestyles that are unhealthy in the sense that they tend to be bad for one's health, but that there are no lifestyles that make you healthy. In such guidelines, "healthy diet" means: a diet that is not unhealthy. There are many many healthy diets; these USDA guidelines give three types as examples. These types are not about specific foods, but about eating enough of certain kinds of food, such as veggies, and not too much of other types of food, such as red meat and high-calorie stuff. --Lambiam 08:08, 21 August 2022 (UTC)[reply]

This and the above previous five queries' IPs all Geolocate to on or near the south-east coast of New South Wales. One wonders, if the queries were genuine, why the querant would ask about US-published guidelines rather than Australian. {The poster formerly known as 87.81.230.195} 90.209.121.96 (talk) 17:55, 21 August 2022 (UTC)[reply]

The source fails to define the portions for many of the food groups ("1.5/wk," but 1.5 of what?), but perhaps you might contact the website directly and ask them. DOR (HK) (talk) 20:16, 21 August 2022 (UTC)[reply]

In most groups the unit is specified as "cup eq", but for grains and proteins it is "oz eq", and for oils, solid fats and added sugars it is "grams", a curious mixture of imperial and metric units. The "1.5/wk" for legumes is 1.5 cup equivalents (i.e., 360 mL) of legumes per week. --Lambiam 20:53, 21 August 2022 (UTC)[reply]

The source [1] does clearly define the portions (for example, see p.35 from which part of the table in our article is derived), but our article presents the information in a rather confusing way, by moving the units away from the numbers where they belong, to the bolded header line above each section. For example, the "Vegetable" section says the units are "cup eq" (cup-equivalents), so this applies to each of the numbers in the vegetable lines underneath it. CodeTalker (talk) 20:55, 21 August 2022 (UTC)[reply]

the name of cutting one hair a bit on the top

As seen here:[2]

The boy has buzzed its hair on the sides and a bit on the top on the right side. it is not mohawk and it is not symmetric.

what is the name of buzzing slightly above the sides, slightly above the nibs of the hair line? like the boy has been cut? 11buzzer (talk) 17:48, 21 August 2022 (UTC)[reply]

According to Haircut Names For Men it might be a "high fade". Alansplodge (talk) 20:56, 21 August 2022 (UTC)[reply]