The USDA has a dual mandate that it needs to promote American agricultural products, i.e. we should all be eating as much as possible at all times. In 1977, Congress passes the Farm Bill and in that Farm Bill, they wrap up this question of where is nutrition education going to live? The worst possible place? It just seems weird.
In the 1990s, the Food Pyramid was one of the most recognizable symbols in nutrition education. But where did it come from? Why was it created by the agriculture department? And why did it tell us to eat a whole loaf of bread every day?
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