The old food pyramid pushed Americans into consuming “ultra-processed foods and highly refined carbohydrates that destroyed their metabolic system,” Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said during a House education hearing on Friday.
Rep. Glenn Grothman (R-WI) asked Kennedy what impact the “poor” guidelines from the old food pyramid has had on the health of American children.
Kennedy pointed out that the original food pyramid, which had bread, cereal, and pasta with the highest daily servings and meats and dairy toward the top with lesser servings, was written by industry lobbyists and has remained that way for the last 50 years.
It “reflected the mercantile ambitions of those industries and not public health,” Kennedy said. “It pushed Americans towards ultra-processed foods and highly refined carbohydrates that destroyed their metabolic system.”
He pointed out that the vast majority of calories that Americans eat – 70 percent – “typically right now
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