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My brother's medical textbooks still have the picture of the OG Food Pyramid.
Shit's been discredited for at least a decade or more. 6 servings of bread a day? Are you fucking with me?
Though not nearly the most outdated thing I've seen in authoritative textbooks in India, most egregious example was an organelle supposedly responsible for oxygen metabolism in aerobic bacteria, which we've known since the uh, 80s, is actually an artifact of poorly done preparation before electron microscopy and not found in actual living organisms.
Sadly the margins of exam papers are too small to contain my frantic screaming, and the graders too overworked to care.
That pyramid contains an absurd amount of food, but afaik keeping animal product consumption pretty low (and not eating ultraprocessed junk) is supported by big data to prolong a healthy life, so it's not all wrong.
It's very far from right too. Like there are so many damn things wrong with it, especially the stigmatization of fats.
While nutrition is still a crapshoot, it's still better than what was in vogue during the Clinton administration.
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