Tag: USDA food pyramid

Video: How Harvard Disses Dairy … and WHY?

The USDA has been producing dietary guidelines for about 100 years now. The picture has gone from a PIE, to a square, to a pyramid, to a “rainbow pyramid”, to a circular plate. In this interview, I talk about how this change happened, WHY it happened, and the controversy around it....

Do The Dietary Guidelines Improve Nutrition?

The dietary guidelines started in 1980, when we weren’t nearly as obese, heart diseased, and diabetic as we are now. Has it helped?  Linda Van Horn, the Chair of the Dietary Guidelines Advisory Committee and editor of the Journal of the American Dietetic Association insists on the Guidelines’ relevance by stating...