Got 10 Minutes? Grains at the Base? Thanks, Lobbying.

Megan found a Dr. Jason Fung video called "The Food Pyramid Lie: Why We Got Fat" and immediately needed to talk about it. So here we are. The food pyramid you grew up with — the one that told you to build your entire diet on a mountain of bread and grains — was not based on science. It was based on lobbying. And the Swiss one? Also a little sus. Danna had never even heard of the Swiss food pyramid before this episode. She has thoughts.

What You'll Learn:

1. What the old US food pyramid actually looked like — and why it made us all fatter and sicker
2. How the new US food pyramid flipped everything (literally — it's now inverted)
3. The Swiss food pyramid breakdown — and what it gets right and wrong
4. Why protein is criminally underrepresented in every government food guide
5. The dairy lobby problem — and why "lactose-free" isn't necessarily the health win you think it is
6. Why fat got vilified in the '80s (spoiler: money) and what that did to public health
7. Danna's version of the ideal food pyramid — water and protein fans, this one's for you

That's your 10 minutes. Go look up the Swiss food pyramid. Then get mad. Then eat more protein.

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Chapters:

00:00 Food Pyramid Setup

01:21 Old US Pyramid Breakdown

02:07 New US Pyramid Shift

03:15 Swiss Pyramid Compared

07:05 Fixing Guidelines and Wrap

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