For years the food pyramid was used as a guide for the standard American diet. Doctors, nurses, and dietitians based their dietary recommendations to patients on it. Unfortunately, as the years passed after the food pyramids inception, negative things occurred with people’s health
Over the past 60 years more people became obese, sicker, and suffered more chronic disease than every before. However, doctors, nurses, and dietitians continued to propagate the alleged benefits of the food pyramid.
Finally, doctors spoke out. For instance, one doctor from the clip below claimed, “There’s virtually no difference in the macronutrient composition that farmers use to feed animals to fatten them up & that the USDA uses to tell us how to supposedly slim down.”
Is the food pyramid working against us? Find out by watching the clip below.
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