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by gruez 1609 days ago
>(Are dairy and grains still food groups... I could easily go on)

I don't get it. Are you saying that grain shouldn't be a food group? I think for the purposes of categorizing foods, "starchy staples" is a pretty useful categorization, even if the recommendation to eat 8 servings a day or whatever is misguided.
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programmarchy 1609 days ago
He's probably referring to the food pyramid, in which those food groups were put forth as foundational building blocks of a healthy diet according to the USDA. [1] That saga overlapped with the sugar lobby blaming fats for heart issues [2], and using their weight with the FDA to keep % Daily Values for sugars off food labels until very recently. [3]

[1] https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/8375951/

[2] https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2016/09/13/493739074...

[3] https://www.vox.com/2016/5/20/11719796/new-nutrition-label-a...

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