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I don't understand what you are saying here. Can you clarify? Thanks.

The last time the feds tried to influence the nations diet, it was a disaster. That disaster involved pushing macro-nutrient consumption away from meat/dairy (fat, protein) and into vegan/vegetarian (carbohydrate) sources. That should be abundantly clear, but you can google it as it is very well known in the usa, see for example this article front page WaPo this morning:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonkblog/wp/2015/10/06/f...

and for background, an left-wing politics view on usda the old food pyramid that has been discredited

http://www.healthy-eating-politics.com/food-pyramid.html

Thanks for the expansion. Interesting thoughts

The U.S. dietary guidelines discussed in that article encourage more dairy (but low-fat, not high fat) and "Increase seafood intake by replacing some meat or poultry with seafood." The also encourage us to "Reduce intake of refined grains and replace some refined grains with whole grains."

http://health.gov/dietaryguidelines/dga2010/dietaryguideline...

Painting them as pushing vegan/vegetarian eating or increased carb consumption doesn't match the facts.

Wrong article--The food pyramid pushed corn based sweetener and other plant-basey carnohydrates grains and gluten based products at the expense of animal protein and (saturated) fat.

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