The Food Pyramid
Maintenance Phase
Aubrey Gordon & Michael Hobbes
4.8 • 16.3K Ratings
🗓️ 15 November 2022
⏱️ 52 minutes
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Summary
In the 1990s, the Food Pyramid was one of the most recognizable symbols in nutrition education. But where did it come from? Why was it created by the agriculture department? And why did it tell us to eat a whole loaf of bread every day?
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Links!
- Anna-Britt Agnsäter
- Rounding Out the Food Pyramid
- Food Lobbies, The Food Pyramid, and US Nutrition Policy
- The Fattening: Reassessing The Food Pyramid
- Catering to Cows and Consumers
- US Drops New Food Chart
- Are Cattlemen Now Guarding the Hen House?
- Testing of the Food Pyramid Comes Full Circle
- Topping the Food Pyramid
- Food Pyramid Replaced By 'MyPlate'
- Is The Food Pyramid Obsolete?
- Coca-Cola Funds Scientists to Shift Blame
- Experts Say Lobbying Skewed the US Dietary Guidelines
- Food Politics
Thanks to Doctor Dreamchip for our lovely theme song!
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | [♪ OUTRO MUSIC PLAYING [♪ |
| 0:13.9 | Do you know what I realized? |
| 0:16.2 | As listening back to the Daily Harvest episode. |
| 0:18.6 | I realized, I think you and I are becoming like the us weekly of like food regulation agencies |
| 0:26.2 | and like public health and nutrition academia. |
| 0:29.2 | Do you know what I mean? |
| 0:30.2 | It really feels like we're getting a little bit like, you know what I heard? |
| 0:34.4 | Oh yeah, it's federal regulators. |
| 0:36.6 | They're just like us. |
| 0:38.1 | Yes. |
| 0:39.1 | Okay, do you want to tag us in? |
| 0:45.8 | Welcome to Maintenance Phase. |
| 0:47.5 | The podcast that recommends 31 servings of grains, but only three servings of oils and sugars |
| 0:54.4 | and fats or something. |
| 0:56.2 | I'm Bob Recordan. |
| 0:57.2 | I'm Michael Hobbs. |
| 0:58.8 | We have so much news before we start the show. |
| 1:02.6 | We've never had this much news before. |
| 1:04.2 | I'm going to start us off and then you tell me what I have missed. |
| 1:07.5 | Okay. |
| 1:08.7 | If you would like to support the show, you can do that at patreon.com slash maintenance phase. |
| 1:12.6 | You can also buy t-shirts, mugs, tote bags, whatever you like at T public. |
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