Analysis: Former Food Pyramid

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Former Food Pyramid (1) 1. The message gets right to the point. It tells exactly how many of a certain group a person should eat or drink. There is not to many words in each section which makes a person easily read everything. 2. The drawings of certain items in the group gives great examples for those unfamiliar with certain products. Although, a pie graph could be used as an addition to the drawing, it would remove a person’s attention from the actual pyramid factor. 3. The design fits the basis of a pyramid with the smallest amount being on top. The colors represent the different food or drink items involved in that subject. Therefore, the colors are used appropriately for the examples. 4. I think the orange border on the left hand side The message is broken down into multiple parts that explain in detail the different colors of the pyramid. The wording is simplistic and made of an audience of any age. 2. The person climbing the period tells us a story that we need to make it to the top through eating properly. I think a pie graph would be more adequate in describing the story. The reason is that a pie graph shows a better breakdown of how much of a certain group a person should eat. 3. Yes, it represents a pyramid, but it does not need the steps. Although, it represents physical activity, some people might get the impression that the USDA is saying that steps are the best exercise. The colors are okay, except for the yellow color. This is because a person could barely read the white words oil in the yellow legend. 4. The dots connected to the dashed lines could be confusing to some. The dots and lines that go to the person (personalization) and the orange color (both moderation and variety) might make a person cross eyed. Unless a person reads each paragraph and then looks for the associated line will the person be able to match up the words to the The numbers on the side could go up to the 250 mark. This would give us a better indication of the Sub-Sahara Africa bars in the 1900 and 1930 fields. Accidents versus Diseases (4) 1. The paragraphs give a better description of the story rather than the pyramid. Yes, the smaller the deaths should be at the top of the pyramid, since it is the peak of the object. 2. A table would represent this story better. There should be two tables (accidents and diseases). Then each table could be divided by each topic. There would be two columns in each table (topic and number of deaths). 3. The design of the visual is misrepresented in that the cancer and heart disease sections are of the same width. Although, the red and pink colors represent danger, I do not think they should alternate the same two colors. Different shades of pink to red could show the numbers getting higher. 4. The histogram with the people could be removed. Digits representing the numbers of deaths is all that should be shown. Who really is going to count each person? 5. The total should read a closer figure such as 2,450,000 since the actual count is 2,448,228. The figure should show the year of the survey, since I know from the news that people have died from the bird flu and mad cow disease. (Pandemic101, 2011) and (Mehta,

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