Why Did America Try To Bullshit Us With The Food Pyramid?

(Evie) For decades, the traditional food pyramid was viewed as the gold standard for how Americans should eat and how they should feed their children. But that standard wasn’t dictated by nutritionists and dieticians, but by politicians and their own agendas. Food lobbyists and agricultural agendas have played a huge part in not only the pyramid but also in how we view certain foods and how we still eat. Replacing the pyramid with a different model is only scratching the surface.

The Food pyramid was one of the many weird things we were taught growing up. Like KB and Nick say in the clip, this was taught to us by by the people we taught most, teachers, as if it was gospel. And it was just incredibly wrong! Propoganda that was created by lobbyists to sell products. Well, no harm no foul, right? 

Unfortunately, the damage is done. A quick glance at obesity rates lays it all out for us. In 1992, only a handful of states fell between the 15-19% range when it came to obesity. By 1998, years after the pyramid standard had some time to take hold of schools and health departments, seven states had increased to the greater or equal to 20% range (by 2000 that range included 14 more states).

INSANE! Learn more about that and more possibly true things we uncovered in this weeks episode.