Some here who are arguing against the keto diet still seem to go solely based off this, engrained (pun!) in their psyche of what a proper diet should be.
Brought to you by the FDA and the US department of Agriculture, who is heavily lobbied by grain and corn companies.
https://time.com/4130043/lobbying-po...ry-guidelines/
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This is not the first time experts have raised concerns about the guidelines.
“Throughout the 1980s and 1990s, the USDA treated fat as the primary harm in the American diet,” says Nestle. Along with its anti-fat stance—a stance researchers say was never grounded in science—the guidelines also encouraged Americans to eat hefty amounts of carbohydrates. The 1995 edition made bread, cereal, and pasta the foundation of its “Food Guide Pyramid,” and advised people to eat between six and 11 servings of grains every day, compared to just three to five servings of vegetables and two to four servings of fruit. Fat was to be eaten “sparingly.”
“This advice to eat more carbs and avoid fat is exactly backwards if you want to improve health and lower body weight,” says Dr. Robert Lustig, a pediatric endocrinologist at the University of California, San Francisco. He and other nutrition researchers say the popularity of anti-fat, pro-carb guidelines helped fuel a rise in diet-related health problems.
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It's always been about who gives the most money to politicians.
Remember kids! Fat bad! Cereal and corn good good good! Eat your Corn Flakes™
