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The Low Carb Hustle Podcast

299: The Food Pyramid is a Scam (The Truth about Government Nutrition Guidelines)

The Low Carb Hustle Podcast

Nate Palmer

Health, Self-improvement, Keto, Fitness, Health & Fitness, Femaleweightloss, Diet, Education, Intermittentfasting, Nutrition, Loseweight, Weightloss, Paleo, Carnivore, Lowcarb, Fasting, Exercise, Ketogenicdiet, How To, Ketogenic, Womenshealth

5 • 1K Ratings

🗓️ 9 June 2025

⏱️ 17 minutes

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Summary

You’ve been told to trust the experts. To eat more grains. To fear fat. But what if the very foundation of our nutrition guidelines was built not on science—but on religion, corporate funding, and government agendas?

In this eye-opening solo episode, Nate Palmer breaks down the wild (and true) history behind the food pyramid. From enemas and yogurt colonics at Battle Creek Sanitarium, to Kellogg’s anti-sex cereal crusade, to the billions that Big Food and Big Ag poured into shaping what you eat today—this episode is a masterclass in how we got here… and how to escape it.

If you’ve ever wondered why the standard American diet is so broken, this is your moment of clarity.

What You’ll Learn:

  • Why the food pyramid was never based on health—but on economics and politics

  • The bizarre religious roots of our dietary guidelines (yes, cereal was invented to stop masturbation)

  • How the USDA’s dual mission created a massive conflict of interest

  • The real reason fat was demonized—and who profited most from it

  • How corporate donations to organizations like the American Heart Association shaped public perception

  • What you can do today to eat against the pyramid and reclaim your health

📚 Resources & References:

  • Procter & Gamble’s $1.7M donation to the American Heart Association

  • McGovern Committee Dietary Goals (1977)

  • Sugar Research Foundation’s funded studies to blame fat over sugar (1967)

  • USDA Farm Subsidy Data (1995–2020, via EWG.org)

  • Kellogg and Battle Creek Sanitarium archives

  • Loma Linda University & Seventh-day Adventist dietary influence

Transcript

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0:00.0

Have you ever wondered why you were told to eat six to 11 servings of bread and pasta every day,

0:04.4

but not too much fat?

0:06.3

Or why entire generations have been told that cereals have held food and butter is actually dangerous?

0:11.4

And how despite doing what we were told that low-fat, high-carb, whole grains, we ended up

0:15.3

fat or sicker and more confused than ever before?

0:18.6

Well, today, I'll be pulling back the curtain because the food

0:22.7

pyramid was never based on science. Never. It was based off of religion, profit, politics,

0:29.1

and a whole lot of sugar. We're going to get into it. This is the episode that I'm hoping gets me

0:34.0

banned from podcasting. Welcome to get leaner and live longer with Nate Palmer,

0:37.8

the show for busy people who want to maximize their energy,

0:39.9

burn fat, and build a body that feels as good as it looks.

0:42.6

I'm your host, Nate Palmer.

0:43.5

I've been to coach since 2008,

0:44.7

and I believe that looking great and feeling unstoppable

0:46.4

does not require hours in the gym or giving up the foods you love.

0:49.2

This shows where I share the real strategies that help you get leaner, live longer, and unlock your million-dollar body, one habit, one meal, and one workout at a time. So if you're ready to cut through the noise,

0:56.6

and I'm talking about a lot of noise, like historical noise, you want to start finally feeling

1:01.9

like a high performer again, then let's get it. All right, this is an episode that I've been working

1:07.0

on for a while, took a lot of research, took a lot of, like, putting together the pieces. I was honestly treating it like a geometry proof. By the way, I did so good at geometry, and I

1:14.7

took algebra six times. I took geometry once, got a, got like a B or an A in it. Pretty good.

1:21.3

But I love the idea of like proofs because it's like if this, then this, then this, then this final, like final concept. It's hard to argue with it.

1:28.2

So I wanted to put together something that was actually compelling. That wasn't just me, like,

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