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this post was submitted on 05 May 2024
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The food pyramid is commonly taught in American schools as the “ideal” diet.
It was started as a sales tactic to boost grain sales, but was marketed as scientific research. And since this was started decades ago, you couldn’t simply google their sources to verify whether or not the studies were legit.
Turns out it’s a crock of shit, and teaching it to kids does make childhood obesity rates worse. Because of course it does, an excess of carbs is horrible for you.
Fuck
So the short answer is greed again.
I went through the 30 seconds of effort to make the always has been meme.
Image uploads are down at the moment so just imagine I posted it here, thank you.
Thx for your 30s effort, that's s high compliment from you considering this is the substitute of reddit lol