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> If medical doctors were routinely taught something wrong and contrary to the published research at medical schools, we'd probably be thinking about a similar suit

But we don't see one with respect to popular nutritional advice, which is in a very dismal state with the old food pyramid being promoted as the way and no one can agree on anything because nothing is reproducible.

So, maybe not the best analogy.




Well, the old food pyramid hasn't been used in almost 20 years now.


The food pyramid and its replacements come from the USDA. They're there to sell farm products. And maybe help with nutrition for farm workers.


> hasn't been used

What has it been replaced with? I try to keep up with health literature and am not familiar with the food pyramid's replacement. Perhaps it hasn't received as much advertisement as the food pyramid did.


The USDA Food Pyramid was replaced in 2005 with MyPyramid. http://web.archive.org/web/20050830024356/http://mypyramid.g...

In 2011, the pyramid was done away with altogether and replaced with MyPlate, which remains the USDA's current nutritional guide graphic. https://www.myplate.gov/




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