Exactly this. "Sweets" for most people meant deserts You can see a picture of the food pyramid the USDA used to use here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Food_py

Exactly this. "Sweets" for most people meant deserts You can see a picture of the food pyramid the USDA used to use here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Food_pyramid_(nutrition) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Food_pyramid_(nutrition) Telling people they should be having a lot of cereal and showing them a bowl of cereal (along with saltine crackers) is going to lead them to believe that's healthy. Especially in the 90's when "cereal" for almost everyone meant highly processed breakfast cereals with a lot of added sugars, and there was little awareness with how much sugar was being added to everything. Telling people to eat a lot of whole grains is entirely different from telling people to eat a lot of, quote: "bread, cereal, rice and pasta."