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TheLatin American Diet Pyramid is a nutrition guide that was developed byOldways and scientific advisers from theHarvard School of Public Health, theBaylor College of Medicine, and theLatin American Summit Scientific Committee in 2005. It is atradition-baseddiet that suggests the types and frequency of foods that should be enjoyed every day.
This pyramid is based on two distinct historical periods of the culinary evolution of the peoples ofLatin America.
The first period describes the dietary traditions of regions inhabited primarily by three high cultures of aboriginalLatin Americans: theAztec, theInca, and theMaya. The second period describes the dietary traditions that emerged following the arrival ofColumbus, at about 1500, to the present time. The dietary patterns followed today by the people ofLatin America find their roots in both of these historicalculinary patterns.
The selection of these peoples and of these time periods as a basis for the design follows from these considerations:
Variations of these diets have traditionally existed in other parts ofCentral America,South America, theCaribbean, and the southern edgeUnited States. For the purposes of this research, the aforementioned regions are considered as part of Latin America. They are closely related to traditional areas ofmaize,potato,peanut, and dry bean cultivation in the Latin American region.
Given these carefully defined parameters ofgeography and time, the phrase traditional Latin American diet is used here as a shorthand for those traditional diets of these regions and peoples during two specific time periods that are historically associated with good health.
The design of the Latin American Diet Pyramid is not based solely on either the weight or the percentage of energy (calories) that foods account for in the diet, but on a blend of these that is meant to give relative proportions and a general sense of frequency of servings, as well as an indication of which foods to favour in a healthyLatin American-style diet.
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