Comments on: Whose Food Pyramid Is It Anyway? http://www.marksdailyapple.com/food-pyramid-issues/ Serving up health and fitness insights (daily, of course) with a side of irreverence. Sat, 11 Oct 2008 07:10:38 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.2 By: Mark’s Daily Apple » Blog Archive » Study Finds Low-Carb, High-Protein, High-Fat Diet Associated with Lowered Diabetes Risk http://www.marksdailyapple.com/food-pyramid-issues/#comment-28924 Mark’s Daily Apple » Blog Archive » Study Finds Low-Carb, High-Protein, High-Fat Diet Associated with Lowered Diabetes Risk Wed, 13 Feb 2008 18:37:59 +0000 http://www.marksdailyapple.com/food-pyramid-issues/#comment-28924 [...] Whose Food Pyramid is it Anyway? [...] [...] Whose Food Pyramid is it Anyway? [...]

]]> By: Mark’s Daily Apple » Blog Archive » Diet Soda Might Increase Risk of Metabolic Syndrome http://www.marksdailyapple.com/food-pyramid-issues/#comment-27877 Mark’s Daily Apple » Blog Archive » Diet Soda Might Increase Risk of Metabolic Syndrome Fri, 08 Feb 2008 16:52:51 +0000 http://www.marksdailyapple.com/food-pyramid-issues/#comment-27877 [...] no circumstances, be considered a healthy diet (and don’t even get us started on the USDA food pyramid - 6-11 servings of grain per day? Are they [...] [...] no circumstances, be considered a healthy diet (and don’t even get us started on the USDA food pyramid - 6-11 servings of grain per day? Are they [...]

]]> By: Mark’s Daily Apple » Blog Archive » Dear Mark: Pregnancy Diet Tips for Inquiring Minds http://www.marksdailyapple.com/food-pyramid-issues/#comment-22174 Mark’s Daily Apple » Blog Archive » Dear Mark: Pregnancy Diet Tips for Inquiring Minds Mon, 07 Jan 2008 21:16:37 +0000 http://www.marksdailyapple.com/food-pyramid-issues/#comment-22174 [...] Thanks, and let me first say that my comments shouldn’t stand in for the professional advice of your doctor or midwife. (He or she should know details of your medical and pregnancy history that I wouldn’t be privy to.) Nonetheless, I know pregnant women are more often than not, with the exception of a prenatal vitamin, advised to follow the standard diet that the establishment suggests for all of us. (And, yes, you all know how I feel about that pyramid of hooey.) [...] [...] Thanks, and let me first say that my comments shouldn’t stand in for the professional advice of your doctor or midwife. (He or she should know details of your medical and pregnancy history that I wouldn’t be privy to.) Nonetheless, I know pregnant women are more often than not, with the exception of a prenatal vitamin, advised to follow the standard diet that the establishment suggests for all of us. (And, yes, you all know how I feel about that pyramid of hooey.) [...]

]]> By: Daniel http://www.marksdailyapple.com/food-pyramid-issues/#comment-11874 Daniel Mon, 29 Oct 2007 06:46:05 +0000 http://www.marksdailyapple.com/food-pyramid-issues/#comment-11874 I don't think the grain industry is any more powerful, compelling and convincing than the meat industry. They both have identical financial interests and they both would poison and kill many of us if that meant more power and money for them. So in the food industry everyone is a villan whether they promote grain food and bread or meat and cheese, there's no hero just a bunch of unscrupulous and greedy institutions. I don’t think the grain industry is any more powerful, compelling and convincing than the meat industry. They both have identical financial interests and they both would poison and kill many of us if that meant more power and money for them.
So in the food industry everyone is a villan whether they promote grain food and bread or meat and cheese, there’s no hero just a bunch of unscrupulous and greedy institutions.

]]> By: Susanne http://www.marksdailyapple.com/food-pyramid-issues/#comment-11400 Susanne Thu, 25 Oct 2007 13:43:13 +0000 http://www.marksdailyapple.com/food-pyramid-issues/#comment-11400 Just for shits and giggles ~ if you look in the bottom corner of the 'regulated food pyramid', you'll find that it is published by the NATIONAL DAIRY ASSOCIATION!!!!! They aren't TOO biased, huh? My kids can't eat dairy, it causes all kinds of congestion, ear infections, etc, etc., but not once did their regular doctor take them off of it ~ and they were even BOTH diagnosed w/Asthma! Yet, after getting them blood tests against 115 different kinds of food, both of their triggers were DAIRY ~ among other things. I had to take them to an ALTERNATIVE DOCTOR to gain this info, and pay a lot of money to boot, but it was worth it!! I now put my money into the food (organic, no refined sugars, no dyes, and no dairy, or very little dairy), instead of into the doctor's pockets or towards buying medicines that only make them worse, and cause other problems!! I've been doing this for over 3 yrs, and it is working great!! My kids now only go to the doctor's for well visits or if they get hurt. :) Just for shits and giggles ~ if you look in the bottom corner of the ‘regulated food pyramid’, you’ll find that it is published by the NATIONAL DAIRY ASSOCIATION!!!!! They aren’t TOO biased, huh? My kids can’t eat dairy, it causes all kinds of congestion, ear infections, etc, etc., but not once did their regular doctor take them off of it ~ and they were even BOTH diagnosed w/Asthma! Yet, after getting them blood tests against 115 different kinds of food, both of their triggers were DAIRY ~ among other things. I had to take them to an ALTERNATIVE DOCTOR to gain this info, and pay a lot of money to boot, but it was worth it!! I now put my money into the food (organic, no refined sugars, no dyes, and no dairy, or very little dairy), instead of into the doctor’s pockets or towards buying medicines that only make them worse, and cause other problems!! I’ve been doing this for over 3 yrs, and it is working great!! My kids now only go to the doctor’s for well visits or if they get hurt. :)

]]> By: LabRat http://www.marksdailyapple.com/food-pyramid-issues/#comment-10841 LabRat Sun, 21 Oct 2007 02:46:59 +0000 http://www.marksdailyapple.com/food-pyramid-issues/#comment-10841 I believe public health is part of the government's responsibility- up to a point. That point is regulating food to make sure it won't poison consumers through more direct means of contamination, enforcing vaccination laws for schoolchildren, and tracking down epidemics- areas where the medicine is clear-cut and even bureaucracy can't screw it up *too* badly. Nutrition, though? This is the same organization that couldn't competently run the Post Office. Nutrition science is a field even the well-educated need a machete for, let alone bureaucrats. I believe public health is part of the government’s responsibility- up to a point. That point is regulating food to make sure it won’t poison consumers through more direct means of contamination, enforcing vaccination laws for schoolchildren, and tracking down epidemics- areas where the medicine is clear-cut and even bureaucracy can’t screw it up *too* badly.

Nutrition, though? This is the same organization that couldn’t competently run the Post Office. Nutrition science is a field even the well-educated need a machete for, let alone bureaucrats.

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