Food Pyramid Gets Upended
CTH
Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F Kennedy Jr has released a new food pyramid guide for Americans.
The Dietary Guidelines for Americans released today meshes MAHA-influenced changes with longer-standing advice for people to cut sugar consumption while eating more protein, whole grains and colorful fresh vegetables and avoiding “highly processed” foods.
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Two of the MOST important changes and emphases:
1. The war on saturated fats is finally OVER!
2. They are also considering warning labels (they should be ‘Black Box’ warnings!) on bags and boxes with bar codes — Frankenstein Foods!! There is nothing in nature that resembles a Cheeto, Cheerio, or a Pringle. And what ‘chicken’ is in ‘Chicken In A Biscuit’ crackers??
Now they need to send out a road show across America and book slots on all the big podcasts to get the word out about how Big Pharma, Big Medical, Big Food and Big Science have been lying to us for decades and what we have to show for it. 40% of ALL America’s children either have or are on a direct path to T2D!!
This Food Pyramid is as it should have been all along.
the new one is mostly my diet, I try to avoid any refined wheat mostly, and most refined carbs at all, but I would have liked to see a couple cans of Budweiser on the pyramid .
I’ve seen several comments online that were saying they could’ve just stuck with the My Plate idea. My Plate was a good idea but it wasn’t a great one. It was too generic. Up-ending the old food pyramid so completely is an image that will stick in people’s brains. I like it.
Gym Rats and a lot of nutritionist have been saying forever that the problem with the old pyramid is they had it upside down.
Personally, I think they can deep six the ‘healthy fruits’ part of the plan. It’s not that I don’t like fruit, but that most fruits have been engineered to be A LOT sweeter than the ones most of us grew up on. There’s one particular pear that is amazingly sweet (and very delicious, too); it’s the Holiday Pear which is sold around Christmas time. It comes from Oregon, and here’s what one seller says about it: “After the pears are carefully picked, they are cold conditioned, which is a process that breaks down the fruit’s starch and converts it to sugar. Once those pears reach peak sweetness, they make their way to our stores.”
Another Northwest favorite is the seasonal Pence Peach. Again, this variety is well-known for it’s very high sugar content (Brix measurement, also used for the sweetness of wine grapes). These peaches grow mostly in Washington state and, like the Holiday Pear, people pay a premium price for their extra sugar load.. So-called food scientists have found a way to up the sugar content of every fruit that’s in the grocery store — and some of our vegetables, too.
Not all sugars and carbs are equal. The most dangerous carb out there is ‘modified food starch’. It’s in everything that comes in a bag or a box with a barcode.
“Personally, I think they can deep six the ‘healthy fruits’ part of the plan”
That’s a hot debate with the gym crowd. Lot’s of sugars. I tend to agree with you. Except for Blue Berries. Awesome stuff.
AbigailAdams:
“The most dangerous carb out there is ‘modified food starch’. It’s in everything that comes in a bag or a box with a barcode.”
Thank you for that information.
We eat a lot of animal protein, I only use olive oil and butter as fats. I hate broccoli. Will eat green beans, cabbage, asparagus , carrots (if I have to), spinach, tomatoes and mushrooms.
Also, always have potatoes, cheese, garlic, onions, eggs, milk and cream in my fridge.
Even if you’re not teetering at ‘pre-diabetes’ or solidly in T2D, look up the glycemic index for everything you ingest, and avoid those tracks altogether. Two things you can do right now to blunt those dangerous insulin spikes:
1. Look up the human studies on apple cider vinegar (ACV) and how it moderates how glucose is released into your body and its affect on signals to the pancreas and insulin production.
2. If you’re going to eat high carb/sugary desserts, eat veggies first, then protein and eat the carbs/sugars last. This also can help reduce extreme insulin spikes.
I’ve been doing a LOT of research on this stuff lately because I started out looking at what ‘inflammation’ is. I think I’ve burned through my reserves of visceral fat at this point, and it only took a matter of weeks. My problem is trying to convince my doctor that the body was meant to run on keytones, not glucose. I think it’s pretty crummy that the person I’m arguing with got less than 4 hours of education in that long, long medical training, in nutrition. Big Medicine wants us all sick.
Think back: Did you ever see your grandparents walking around with a bag of Doritos after having just had a healthy meal?
This is the food pyramid I grew up with (in the 1950s), then in some democrat-era, the so-called experts decided we needed to be more vegetarian in our eating habits and inverted it. Thank God, wee are again getting sensible again.
I remember studying the Atkins Diet back in the 90s and everyone thought he was a kook. Sure, he wasn’t right on everything but he was the first one I know of that was screaming that sugar was killing us and fats could save us. And look at us now. That pyramid is basically the maintenance Atkins Diet illustrated.