The USDA recommendations are almost universally considered wrong, perhaps even exactly backwards. I'm not familiar with the USDA recommendations, but from quic

The USDA recommendations are almost universally considered wrong, perhaps even exactly backwards. I'm not familiar with the USDA recommendations, but from quickly looking at them[1] I can't see what would be so wrong. [1] http://www.cnpp.usda.gov/dietaryguidelines.htm http://www.cnpp.usda.gov/dietaryguidelines.htm