MikeyBash
New Member
the wall street journal had an article the other day about the new, revised food pyramid the government's working on. the thing that amazed me, aside from the silly idea that we need the government to tell us what to eat with cute pictures, is how involved the varous food lobbies are.
The meat producers want the recommendations to include more meat. The grain lobby likes the way it is, heavy on starch and carbs. the sugar indusry is fighting the "use sparingly" recommendation since sugar is a food (unlike artifical sweeteners). and, of course the powerful dary lobby wants to increase the recommended servings of milk and cheese.
So what the government tells us to eat depends more on politics that making us healthy. Maybe that's why Americans have gotten so fat while the Food Pyramid has been agressivly preached in schools.
If the government has not business in our bedrooms, they certainly don't belong in our kitchen either.
And don't get me started on low-flow toilets!
The meat producers want the recommendations to include more meat. The grain lobby likes the way it is, heavy on starch and carbs. the sugar indusry is fighting the "use sparingly" recommendation since sugar is a food (unlike artifical sweeteners). and, of course the powerful dary lobby wants to increase the recommended servings of milk and cheese.
So what the government tells us to eat depends more on politics that making us healthy. Maybe that's why Americans have gotten so fat while the Food Pyramid has been agressivly preached in schools.
If the government has not business in our bedrooms, they certainly don't belong in our kitchen either.
And don't get me started on low-flow toilets!