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...
I couldn’t agree more. Thanks, Texan5!
Absolutely. Evil people.
In Agriculture class we were taught that the government created the food pyramid as a marketing idea for dairy farmers. This was way back in the early 20th century. They wanted people to think they needed to drink milk and eat cheese.