[m463]

Aren't government nutritional health guidelines heavily influenced by politics/outside influence?

I know we've gotten past the food pyramid, but don't guidelines continue to heavily favor dairy?

(and doesn't mcdonalds still have a lot of saturated fat?)

[johnnyanmac]

I could be making huge assumptions here. But I imagine the GP's experiment was as simple as focusing on "recommended calories" (which is 2000 per day) and secondarily, keeping under/over certain nutrients (low sugar/cholesterol/fat, high vitamins).

Food pyramid was much less scientific and more of a basic guideline for school children (and yes, the dairy campaigns were very successful, though dairy at least has nutritional value and usually a good "fill" factor). But I don't think any of those hard nutrient recommendations were every challenged.

Were they? I honestly haven't looked into it.