The Food Pyramid Lie: How Lobbying Ruined Our Food | Multi Level Mondays

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Blair Zoń

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🗓️ 8 May 2023

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Go to http://hellofresh.com/mlm16 and use code mlm16 to get 16 free meals and free shipping. Go to http://joinhoney.com/mlm to get PayPal Honey for free. Go to http://dipseastories.com/mlm to get an extended 30 day free trial. Sign up for our Patreon to support what we do! https://www.patreon.com/iilluminaughtii Welcome to Multi Level Mondays, a weekly series all about multi level marketing, pyramid schemes, and ponzi schemes. While I love a good triangle, the food pyramid is not one of those. In fact, this dietary model has done a great disservice to the US over the years, and may contribute to health issues more than you know. After being influenced by food lobbyists, the food pyramid is virtually unrecognizable from what it was originally intended to be. Today, we’ll talk about that—the original pyramid. Connect With Me: https://linktr.ee/iilluminaughtii’ Sources: https://justpaste.it/a2rlt Writers/Researchers/Helpers: Ali Z-B This episode was edited and mixed by: G. Thomas Craig Album cover art created by: Betsy Primes Intro Song Credits: Last to Fall- Will Van De Crommert Outro Song Credits: Sacred and Profane- Nicholas Rowe Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:14.4	Hello friends welcome to a new happy learning video. Today we are going to learn a
0:28.8	bit more about healthy eating. We need to learn about the food pyramid and follow its steps.
0:35.6	Here it is. I love a good pyramid as much as the next person. Well, maybe a lot more than the next person, but not when it's in the form of a
0:45.2	pyramid scheme. Only good well-source pyramids are welcome here and the one we're going to talk
0:50.1	about today is actually pretty controversial. The Food Pyramid. If you're a
0:55.4	millennial like me, then you were probably shown this model or some variation of it in
1:00.4	school. It's pretty straightforward. Bread and grains are at the bottom, fruit and veggies
1:04.6	above that, meat and dairy above that, and then fats and sugars at the little tippity top.
1:09.8	And on the surface, this doesn't look like a bad idea.
1:12.7	Everyone needs a good balanced diet and we don't want to have too much sugar.
1:16.6	That's a pretty basic thing to teach kids,
1:18.6	and with such a simple visual, it seems like an effective way to teach it. It's not until you get into the servings that things start to really take a turn.
1:26.4	You need apparently six to 11 servings of bread, cereal, rice, and pasta groups per day. Then three to five veggies, two to four fruit,
1:35.9	two to three dairy, and two to three of meat and proteins. It seems like a lot of food,
1:40.3	especially for a kid being taught this pyramid in elementary school.
1:44.3	But when I was a wee babby triangle sitting in one of those awkward desk chairs and absolutely
1:49.4	cracking my back on it and listening to my teacher explained the food pyramid, I didn't think they'd lie to me.
1:54.8	And I'm not even saying they did lie to me. They may not have even known the truth about this.
1:59.6	After all, this was introduced by the USDA by supposed professionals who surely had our best interests at
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