Modern society, with its overabundance of high-calorie food, makes healthful eating difficult.

It advises how to reduce fat in the diet and offers other tips for healthful eating.

But green has made inroads in the grocery store because of its association with the environment and healthful eating.

Along with the new regulations, the department also began an ambitious campaign to educate children about healthful eating.

"There is a much more integrated approach to healthful eating," he said.

For people who are serious about healthful eating, it's the perfect compromise between, say, death by chocolate and no dessert at all.

Each of the four California restaurants in which he is a partner makes some connection with healthful eating, no matter how subtle.

The pyramid, he said, was a potent symbol of healthful eating.

But a lack of proper recipes is not the only thing that stands between the public and healthful eating.

Even now, with more interest in healthful eating, success is not guaranteed.