mindbabies:

This guy did some research and I have to say, it’s a pretty insightful look into the history of our government’s politically motivated nutritional recommendations. We should probably look to our government to tell us what we should eat right? They only want the best for their citizens right? It has nothing to do with the interests of the ever-growing oligarchy that is the food industry right?

WRONG. Do read. Here’s an excerpt and the link:

From: A 110 Year History of Government Food Advice

Over the past few days I’ve been doing my darndest to research the history of America’s Food Pyramid in preparation for writing this entry and am amazed at a few things that immediately jump out in my few hours of reading.

1. By my count, it’s been changed roughly 8-11 times in slightly over a century.
2. It’s a very cryptic and difficult topic to research.
3. It’s AMAZINGLY political.
4. It somehow changes based on current events (specifically, wars)
5. It’s never worked.

In 1902 a handsome, mysterious looking man named Atwater, with a whopping $10,000 subsidy from the government, published the first  document on nutrition and essentially legitimized the calorie as the way to measure diet.  In 1917,  Caroline Hunt produced the first USDA food guide with a new focus not on calories but on vitamins and minerals.  1946 rolls round, America is kicking ass taking names across the pond and based on the newly established Recommended Dietary Allowances in 1943, Uncle Sam establishes the “Basic 7″ foods for health.  Sammy baby changes his mind in 1956 and whittles it down to the “Basic 4″.  Years later in the 60s and 70s, the world’s biggest a-hole combo come along, McGovern and Keys, and influence what essentially is the eradication of dietary fat.  Americans embark on three decades of terrible, grain-based eating and in 1992, the first official USDA Food Pyramid is produced telling you to eat 11 servings of grains a day.  We revise it in ’05, abolish it in 2011 and here we are today with Michelle Obama’s much improved but severely lacking MyPlate.

•••• When will people wake up to the fact that fat doesn’t make you fat. Carbos and sugars make you fat… especially grains. —BP