They acted like that shit was so important, but it was like super influenced by food lobbyists and misleading or whatever
Apparently in 2011 they changed it to "myplate" and I haven't heard anything about it since then
In Soviet north china the government lies about what a "healthy meal" is comprised of
Learned this one in school. I remember at the time everyone knew that it was blatant lies, but the excuse for it was something like "it made more sense in the 1950s when more people had physical labor jobs".
Then my first attempt at college I took a health class and they taught us this one, which is still just terrible.
This seems to be the most recent one, but it seems that by the time the USDA got around to telling people to eat their vegetables and not load up on bread, the idea of nutrition guidelines had been completely de-legitimized in people's minds. Also you still really don't need that much milk.
That second one lmao - you should have more milk per day than vegetables
Wonder if I can guess what lobby was behind that edition.
Just as bad as this is the recommendation to choose low-fat or fat-free stuff. If you're not getting the calories you need from fats, you're likely going to end up bridging the gap with something sugary. There's a reason why the sugar industry had such a big role in dietary recommendations, and why it took us over 50 years to realize "hey maybe eating sugar is really bad", and today we kinda paper over that.
The 68% of the world that has some degree of lactose intolerance: :die: