America embraces the new USDA Dietary Guidelines pyramid – Part two…
Part Two
After I sent you the e-Alert “Ladies, Gentlemenand Children of All Ages” (4/26/05), I received this eye-opening e-mail from an HSI member named Vaughn:
“Your email today has more truth in it than you might imagine.
Recently, I started working as a research tech in the Food Science Department at my university. Early on, when at lunch, I commented to two young professors that their lunches did not look very healthy for someone in their line of work. One’s comment was that healthy food was up to the nutritionists, that the job of food scientists was to come up with new, marketable ideas for the food industry. That says it all!”
It does indeed. The truth is, there are two pyramids; one illustrates the supposed “ideal” diet promoted by the UDSA, and the other is a pyramid we can only imagine: the reality pyramid, which illustrates the actual diet of average Americans.
If they ever released a graphic of that second one, I’m afraid it would look more like a McDonald’s playland than a pyramid.
To Your Good Health,
Jenny Thompson
Health Sciences Institute
