There’s a great post over at FITBOMB: It’s Not That Hard, People covering the history of USDA food recommendations. The USDA’s latest push is a campaign they’re calling My Plate, using the following graphic:
Still very confusing. What happens when the non-protein portions contain protein, which they usually will? Does the protein portion change? Who knows! The big hunk of grains still baffles me. We know grains pretty much go straight to fat storage in the body, spike your insulin, and make you crave more of them. It’s a vicious cycle. Do yourself a favor and don’t eat grains for an entire week as an experiment. You’ll be amazed how much better you feel.
Take the My Plate graphic and make it fit the Paleo diet:
Pretty fucking easy to understand isn’t it?
Nick Momrik 
Plate 2 is my preference and when I follow that model my skin is better, I sleep better and I have bags of energy. My mood, too, is better.
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Since your are not opposed to profanity on your blog, I would like to take this opportunity to say, “Fuck the USDA & their Pyramid.” Ditto for the plate. They pretty much caused the obesity epidemic in the US, didn’t they? You can see that the epidemic pretty much tracks the introduction of the Pyramid (Scheme). I read somewhere that if Al Qaeda wanted to create a diet plan to destroy America, it would be the food Pyramid. This is all related to lobbying of congress by powerful industry players. Hopefully that makes you sick (figuratively), because it does make you sick (literally).
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That graphic (and Fitbomb’s blog) was what got me interested in the Paleo Diet a few months ago. And then Robb Wolf’s book got me going!
I’m still having a hard time cutting down on sugar(s), but just removing gluten and starch has made an incredible impact on my quality of life!
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Would you recommend the book to someone like me that has already made the switch?
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Yes, simply because his book has a lot of very technical information about what happens to different types of food once you ingest it. That alone is gold! So, it appeals to people who know nothing about Paleo (very motivational) and also to people who want to get more in depth knowledge about what goes on in your body when you eat! 🙂
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Sounds really good. I’ll have to get it.
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Read it on the flight yesterday. Great book that everyone should read.
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I’ll bet you that mass producing products with grains is significantly more profitable than mass production with livestock. Like almost all government agencies, USDA is full of “ex-” corporate execs with all sorts of inappropriate relationships who undoubtedly shape policy for their old buddies. Even though science on grains is finally pushing through 50 years of almost criminal political/corporate misdirection, those powerful corporate interests won’t let go easily.
Good old iron triangles.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iron_triangle_(US_politics)
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