The Chair of the Department of Nutrition at Harvard School of Public Health states unequivocally: "The USDA Pyramid is wrong. At best, [it] offers wishy-washy, scientifically unfounded advice."
Here's what the Journal of the American College of Cardiovascular Exerciselogy has to say: "The low-fat-high-carbohydrate diet, promulgated [publicized] vigorously by the food pyramid, may well have played an unintended role in the current epidemics of obesity, diabetes, and metabolic syndromes."
The Cofounder of the Center for Science in the Public Interest chimes in: "Good advice about nutrition conflicts with the interests of many big industries, each of which has more lobbying power than all the public-interest groups combined." [16 - 18]
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