It's better than the "Food Pyramid" and "MyPlate" which were the gov standards when I was growing up.

Those standards put processed carbs like bread/pasta as the largest part of a "healthy diet". Whoops.

triceratops 2 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Humans have relied on bread, pasta, rice, and tubers for most of their calories since time immemorial. Japanese people eat plenty of rice even today and they are very healthy.

"Food pyramid dumb, eat meat" is a very reductive take.

	▲	mixmastamyk 23 minutes ago \| parent \| next [-]
		Folks had to do the harvest and milling work themselves until recently, it’s not the same. Nor are the quantities.
	▲	throwaway27448 2 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		Only the last hundred to twenty thousand years or so. Evolutionarily speaking, that's not our typical diet. Maybe excepting tubers.

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h4kr1 an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-]

I love when the Food Pyramid and MyPlate are brought up as arguments on why Americans are unhealthy these days.

National estimates suggest only 8%-14% of Americans ever followed MyPlate. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40752889/

Also, MyPlate only used "grains" as a category, with a note to make half from whole grains...not just processed carbs. Big difference. And, vegetables are the biggest category.

Adding on to that, if you workout in ANY capacity, you need simple carbs.

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hackyhacky 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

> It's better than the "Food Pyramid" and "MyPlate" which were the gov standards when I was growing up.

Correct. The root of the problem is that corporate interests influence government regulation. [1] That hasn't changed. What has changed is which industry is offering the largest bribes.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regulatory_capture