The food pyramid has had a lasting effect in the medical community. When my husband was diagnosed, his doctor referred him to a dietician, who put him on a low calorie, low fat, high carb diet. It was a disaster.
But it made the food and pharma companies rich, so there’s that.
It is a good thing you and your husband pursued the Atkins/low carb way of eating and averted disaster...
The food pyramid has had a lasting effect on people who didn’t either grow up on a ranch/farm or had parents who were organic food types-those kids learned to eat healthy and are not obese unhealthy, etc-there are very few fat people to be seen out here-nearly all of them are tourists/daytrippers from the city-and many of their kids are fat, too-the local grocery caters to the natural/fresh organic food crowd here-so the tourists usually just hit the bakery, deli and snack aisles before waddling off to the river or lake...
Whoever paid for and began the promotion of that food pyramid should be sued into oblivion in a class action lawsuit-they have done some real harm...