This 1943 food wheel was designed primarily to help Americans deal with the shortage of food supplies. Surprisingly, it represented a reduction from the 12 basic food groups identified in 1933. (The Basic Four came in 1956.)
While MyPlate, the latest icon unveiled by the United States Department of Agriculture today, doesn't mention butter specifically and advises eating a slightly greater proportion of fruits and vegetables, it's worth noting that it has no place for sugar or dessert. Gone are the specific illustrations of foods—the bananas, fish, and cheese—depicted here. The food groupings have been greatly simplified.
If butter wasn't meant to be eaten buy the serving why is it packaged like candy bars? Same thing with bacon, it comes in a one pound package, there must be a reason... Ever seen a COSTCO sized box of Oreos? There's a stomach ache in a box!
I can explain it to you but I can't understand it for you.
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Fats are probably the least understood food group, don't you agree?
I'm with you that good fats that are unadulterated by human processing are critical for so many aspects of your health.
You kinda sound like you have been exposed to the teachings of Weston Price. He was a dentist in the 30's who traveled the world to see the effects of native diets on mouth and teeth health.
His basic conclusion: Western diets are much less nutritious than Native ones and one of the areas the Native diets really excel is in good fats.
Goose fat, Lard, butter, have been traditionally bashed as "artery clogging" saturated fat, according to the gospel of Ancel Keyes, who started the whole low fat movement with his incredibly flawed analysis of fats in diets across many cultures.
As the result of this utter nonsense, America's health has plunged.
It is really interesting to see a graph of butter consumption over the last 100 years and the incidence of heart attacks. They appear to be inverse to each other. That is to say, that as butter consumption declined the incidences of negative cardiovascular events increased.
Now, I know better than to claim causation in 2 variables when there are many other variables existing. But it is illuminating just the same.
And to think that a whole generation grew up thinking margarine was healthy..... Yeesh.
It's interesting to note how many people react to corn in a negative way either clinically with symptoms or sub clinically with alterations in physiology.
Just not a very good food for most people. Although, I have fond memories of eating fresh corn on the cob soaked in........ Butter!
