[normbal]

At my first clinical position as a freshly graduated DO, I received a copy of the NEW and IMPROVED “Food Pyramid” at my office.

I had many hours of nutrition in med school, courses in undergrad, and had been feeding myself for years prior to starting college (with 7 years active duty Army in between) weighed less at 35 than I did when I graduated high school 17 years prior.

I had a pretty good idea the pyramid was a recipe for disaster. I posted it dutifully in my office - UPSIDE DOWN. Patients would ask, and I would tell them my belief that carbs were going to create a generation of obese, diabetic people.

That was in 1992. Was I right?

[GrannyAnn]

I'm 63. My grandmother called it sugar diabetes and claimed fat was good for you.

My mother said poor Mexicans were fat because they ate so much rice and beans.

We used to know the truth. Then came big Pharma.