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.
The food pyramid was built by lobbyists.
The average people of this country are lemmings going over a cliff.
Conservative are generally above average on independent thought.
What ever happened to the “question authority” bumper stickers?
That might not have been all bad-cheese is good-milk is for babies and very small kids-not adults-but somewhere after the original, all those starches from processed grain products got added to the pyramid-white rice and flour from bleached and hulled grains that are just starch and carbs with almost no nutrients-and then instead of healthy, natural butter they pushed that veggie oil-based abomination called margarine-I saw sticks of that stuff at a couple of friends’ houses-my mom never had a stick or a tub of margarine on our table-and there is none on mine, either...