Cammy: Gladwell piece includes discussion of the food pyramid and what's in it. He quotes a nutrition professor from Columbia and he quotes the researcher behind the Framingham heart study, both of whom said like a vegetarian thing sounds great. That sounds like a good idea and it seems in line with what we know about nutrition. If you were animal products, seems good. What? At this point, they've ordered the printing of the food Pyramid, but it hasn't been released yet. Jesus Christ.
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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