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"Pretty much everyone I know understands that the food pyramid is the product of various lobbies" Maybe adults, but probably not the people who were taught the
by giantg2 10mo ago
"Pretty much everyone I know understands that the food pyramid is the product of various lobbies"
Maybe adults, but probably not the people who were taught the food pyramid - children.
Edit: changed the tense to acknowledge this was in the past. Thought that was obvious since the food pyramid was a thing of the past.
- napkinartist 10mo agoWho is being taught the food pyramid? Its been 20 years since it was discontinued. I don't know any children being taught it.
- shermantanktop 10mo agoI've seen this over and over - adults assuming that what happens in schools today is the same their childhood experience in the classroom, frozen in time. Parents of school-age children ranting and raving about how the school needs to stop doing X, when it hasn't been that way forever; and they cannot hear it, cannot absorb it, cannot stop talking about it. Something something childhood trauma.
- NiloCK 10mo agoNit: Children haven't been taught the food pyramid in something like a couple of decades I think. Current model is something like the DailyPlate visual - a plate filled proportionally with various things.
- alphazard 10mo agoDefinitely agree with the concern here, but this is not a problem unique to the food pyramid. Children will be taught all kinds of propaganda if they attend a public school. It's part of the cost, just not the part that is taken from tax dollars.
- smileysteve 10mo agoAnecdotally, only the "health focused" people around me understand that the food pyramid was for a different time and based on other interests. And I don't think adults on a grand scale question it, or process nutrition labels. Boomers in particular (who engrained Gen x and millennial diets) are most likely to follow grains (and margarine) diets.