When my husband was in the hospital, the hospital menu ordering form had a
picture of the "pyramid" on it and the form told the patient to order foods
 in the same ratio as the pyramid.

Then they sent him home on a LOW FAT diet, recommending margarine, oatmeal,
 and ELEVEN   servings of breads and cereals per day. He was told to not
eat more than 3 ounces (!) twice a week of "red" meat. Heaven forbid you
should eat "red" meat!

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>Just looking at the USDA Pyramid
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>    http://www.usda.gov/cnpp/pyramid.gif
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>makes me sick :-). So Alice-In-Wonderland (up is down, etc.)
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>One might look to political contributions from Agribusiness
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>    http://www.opensecrets.org/industries/indus.asp?ind=A
>