Food Pyramid: How the USDA Conspired with Food Manufacturers to Boost Their Sales
Search results show site after site claiming the original food guide pyramid was released in 1992 and almost nothing about the 1950s version I was trying to find information on. I never could locate an image of the original 1956 USDA “Basic Four Food Groups” pyramid.
Simply search for information about the USDA Food Guide Pyramid. I spent HOURS and have yet to find the original government released Food Guide Pyramid created in the 1950s that I remember from when I was in school.
1992 food guide pyramid
Schools taught the pyramid as health science, but where it came from, who decided what was on it, and who REALLY benefited from it is an interesting and important story that few understand.
Finding the real truth about it in a search engine is VERY difficult. Another search you can use for testing is “Dietary Guidelines”. See what results you get.
This post on the 1992 version of the Food Pyramid includes this excerpt about how the USDA conspired with food manufactures to boost their sales while totally disregarding your health:
Luise Light, the architect of the original version was a nutritional expert who made her recommendations based on valid food science in the 1980′s. But certain members of the food lobby rejected her prescription for small servings of their products so they strong armed the USDA, urging them to bury her work. By 1992, they returned her Food Pyramid to her unrecognizable.
She writes in A Fatally Flawed Food Guide, “When our version of the Food Guide came back to us revised, we were shocked to find that it was vastly different from the one we had developed. As I later discovered, the wholesale changes made to the guide by the Office of the Secretary of Agriculture were calculated to win the acceptance of the food industry…“it appears our nutritional needs are being sold to the highest bidder … again!“
I disagree with FoodForeThought‘s conclusion that eating by the food pyramid is why people are overweight today. I lay that at the feet of food that does not contain the nutrients we need and the enormous amount of things we are ingesting that are NOT FOOD including chemicals, genetically modified organisms and especially high fructose corn syrup that is in almost every product on the shelf!
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Very healful researching, thanks for share. Following this my health will be improved everyday.
Thanks again.
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Thank you very much for sharing this. I believe that we should always have a balance diet. We need to eat fruits and vegetables to always stay healthy and at the same time we need to have a proper exercise.
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Well, without proper way of diet. Getting unexpected weight gain is really a big problem. But we can control it with just a little effort. Being responsible enough of every meal we can eat is a way of prevention.
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I think vegetables and fruit shoul now be on the base layer but the key is to eat a well balanced diet.Wheat and rice still provide the staple food for many families around the gl;obe.
Hi,
You don’t really have to follow the food pyramid, as long as you eat a proper balanced diet which includes Meat or fish, Rice,Vegetables and Fruits. Eating a healthy balanced diet keeps our mind and body healthy also and protects us from harmful diseases. So for me, a responsible food diet is what matters.
Thanks,
Dravis A.
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Eating healthily is easier for those who know how to, but for those who would look to an eating pyramid provided by the government should be given the correct information.
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I agree that big business influences our daily lives, such as with what’s on the newer food pyramid and recommended portions. I think one of the biggest problems is how GMO foods are just about everywhere. I’ll stick with organic “live” food, organic proteins, and other organic food.
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We should follow the food pyramid to maintain a healthy lifestyle. We should always watch what we eat and be healthy always!
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As with everything moderation is the key. Even to much of a good thing can be bad. I found that taking Garcinia Cambogia supplement really had some great benefits for me!
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Leading a healthy lifestyle is key to looking and feeling good.
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The food we eat will determine if we are healthy or not. So we should always eat healthy food and balance diet always with exercise all the time even just for 30 minutes a day.
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