We Uncovered a Multi-Million Dollar Plot to Change What You Eat - More Perfect Union

[TexasTowelie]

The new food pyramid was built by corporate interests.

General Mills, Danone, the beef industry, and more had financial ties to the scientists writing the new dietary guidelines.

RFK said he couldn't be bought, then he let Big Food write the nutrition guidelines.

[bucolic_frolic]

1. Mediterranean Diet with a bit more protein, whole dairy products.

Avoid saturated fats and vivisected foods in all their processed forms, and cut the carbs and sugars.

Mediterranean diet would favor EV olive oil, and avoid seed oils, and have lots of fish (as if you can afford it). Fresh fish is largely imported, has it disappeared from your supermarket? It's about 2/3 less in mine.

[harumph]

2. I eat a good bit of canned north atlantic mackerel

with tomatillo sauce, cheese and pickles. Not so-called "King Mackerel." They're not the same.

Scomber scombrus:
Atlantic mackerel outer meat is red meat while inner meat is white, with a strong taste desirable to some consumers. They are sold fresh, frozen, smoked, salted, filleted, or as steaks. The fish is extremely high in oil content, vitamin B6, vitamin B12, selenium, niacin,[16] and omega 3, a class of fatty acids, containing nearly twice as much of the latter per unit weight as salmon. Unlike the King and Spanish species, Northern Atlantic mackerel are very low in mercury, and can be eaten at least twice a week according to United States Environmental Protection Agency guidelines.[17][18]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atlantic_mackerel#As_food

[2naSalit]

3. So was the old food pyramid...

It just wasn't so egregious.