Food Pyramid Is Like Shag Carpets

This is a case of “the more things change, the more they stay the same.” 


Remember a long time ago when they told us to just eat The Four Basic Food Groups? That worked pretty well for a while, but we got fatter and fatter and more and more unhealthy, year by year. 


So we punted. We tried something that will help us make the changes to head off this problem before it got too severe. Enter the food pyramid that the food industry hated because it didn’t encourage people to overeat everything in sight.  


That will help, for sure!! 


Since then, our overweight and obesity has done nothing but increase. Whatever Pyramid Power we thought would come from that graphic as clearly run out of electricity, because we threw it away and traded it in for the Rainbow Pyramid that didn’t make anyone angry because no one could understand it. 


Just confuse people and they won’t complain so much. 


Now we are going to try something completely different … wait for it … Four Basic Food Groups. This one, however, is unlike the original one we jettisoned so long ago because THAT one was shown on a square. The new modern one is shown on a circle. 


Seriously? It’s the same thing, only recycled like old fashions. Do you love straight leg jeans? Just wait a few years, it will be back. Those of you who are ancient crusty fossils like me remember shag carpets, lava lamps, and embarrassingly bad hair. If you wait long enough, “preppy” will be back IN; cottons will be replaced by synthetics; and, who knows, we might even see Shoulder Pads. 


Like a social fad, the old advice has become the new advice in an approximately 30 cycle. What HASN’T reset it self to the beginning again is our incredible health problems. If only we could turn back the clock on that!