[Pharmboy]

The base of the food pyramid/whole grain stuff started earlier, but the REAL push for more carbs/less fat started in earnest in the late '70s. I do not think it had anything to do with pharma (they're not that smart). I think it had to do with the food/nutritional/industrial complex. We are a wheat-based country.

It not only has to do with food choice, but what manufacturers did: they lowered the fat ( "low-fat" salad dressing, mayo, cookies, etc.) and then raised the carbs (since much of it became unpalatable).

[Black Agnes]

Oh, pharma wasn’t in on the beginnings of it. ADM practically wrote the food pyramid.

Pharma hasn’t exactly been complaining about the results to their bottom line however.

If most people low carbed the need for statins would be close to zero. ditto bp meds, and likely most ‘psych’ meds for all but the complete wackos (not counting schizo/etc in this one, talking about the ‘depressed’ people).

Not to mention all the cardiovascular clinics that have sprung up.

And I suspect the cancer rates are related to this as well. Cancers (and bugs) love sugar.