Death by food pyramid
by Denise Minger · first published 2013
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Why HN recommends it
A critical look at the science and politics behind dietary guidelines and the food pyramid, an honest, well-researched examination of nutrition studies, useful for anyone wanting to question mainstream diet advice.
Summarised by Claude from recommending comments
Argues against the implementation of the USDA food guide pyramid and the study that inspired it.
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on “Hard Science About Diet” ↗Many thanks for the nitpick: yes, it was USDA ;-) Denise Minger's book on the topic, Death by Food Pyramid: How Shoddy Science, Sketchy Politics and Shady Special Interests Have Ruined Our Health, is better than I expected... http://www.amazon.com/Death-Food-Pyramid-Politics-Interests/...
on “The 100-year-old scientist who pushed the FDA to ban artificial trans fat” ↗Probably my favorite book is "Death by Food Pyramid". I can't remember if she went into this particular topic though. I don't know of any definative proof, which I think is what makes issues like this so dangerous. Scientific proof is a high bar when…
on “At Tampa Bay farm-to-table restaurants, you’re being fed fiction” ↗…great example of how hard nutritional research is, even with an incredible big dataset and a bunch of very intelligent PHDs it's still very easy to come to the wrong conclusion. I can highly recommend "Death by Food Pyramid" though, it's a very honest look into food science and the author is very honest about what we know (not a whole lot for sure but we have some strong indications that some diets seem to produce better…
on “Eating Spicy Food Linked to a Longer Life” ↗Read the book “Death by food pyramid”. The pyramid you know is almost entirely wrong, carbs should not be the base, and fats should not be the tip.
on “Stop Planting Trees, Says Guy Who Inspired World to Plant a Trillion Trees” ↗The book "Death by Food Pyramid" goes into great length about the history of how the food pyramid came to be and the story of how it got corrupted.
on “40 year old study could have reshaped American diet, was never fully published” ↗