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by snarf21
2303 days ago
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Well, to be fair, it was on purpose. The food pyramid in the US is created by the USDA, whose sole job is to produce and sell food at massive scale. Remember, they are the ones that subsidize crops and pay farmers not to grow corn and soybeans to keep the price up. If things were sensible, it would be produced by the Department of Health & Human Services. Fat may have more calories per gram than carbs but our real problem is insulin control and resistance and that is what those low fat diets turbo charge. |
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Remember that in the era these policy positions were stood up, you were looking at big advances in medicine and concern about population and food supply.
The guys dying of heart attacks from eating fatty pork and beef at 50 got the message, unfortunately that message shifted the bad habits to bread and sugar.