Central issue: medical consensus in food pyramid era. I think the only thing you two actually disagree about (because I certainly agree with most of what both

Central issue: medical consensus in food pyramid era. I think the only thing you two actually disagree about (because I certainly agree with most of what both of you said) is the medical consensus at the time of the food pyramid, and the only thing that has been contributed to that is a Wikipedia link. Now I have a high degree of faith in Wikipedia and also fully expect the food pyramid was bought and paid for, but following through on Wikipedia to the links supporting this brings 2 book links and a USDA.gov page. Perhaps reading the books would provide a high degree of good explanation, but I still don't know what the medical consensus at the time was. My contribution is a crappy link ( http://www.nytimes.com/2007/10/09/science/09tier.html http://www.nytimes.com/2007/10/09/science/09tier.html ) that suggests the medical consensus indeed thought fat was a greater enemy and am left with no solid belief of the central issue. Stuff is hard.