Redesign the food pyramid to educate the public on the nutrition value of different foods. Explain how to eat specific foods for health optimization. Create a social media campaign and an education campaign for children to widely distribute the information. Use this information to redesign school food to incorporate protein as a main food source. Use this information to educate people on how to prepare healthy foods with how to recipe cards. Teach nutrition in schools so children learn and develop a healthy relationship with food and their health.
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I agree the pyramid is a problem. Turns out that if I follow that, I’m sick and getting sicker. If I flip it on it’s head and eat exactly the opposite proportions (and leaving out whole food groups I’m allergic to) I get much healthier.
And that’s the problem.
While I think the high-carb high-gluten low-fat principle is essentially flawed and unhealthy for more-folks-than-not, there is no ONE plan that works ideally for everyone.
My sister ate according to the pyramid until it killed her. It nearly killed me, so it definitely needs to go. That said, replacing it with what saved my life, or any other one-size-fits-all strategy, is just as likely to be harmful to some people in the population.
Not sure what the solution is here, but recognition of the individual variations and education on how to figure out your personal needs might be called for. As would getting MD doctors better educated on nutrition, and not just endorsing The-One-True-Way of diet based on an oversimplified model would be a start.
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