The food pyramid caused the obesity epidemic

Posted by Kevin | Jun 28, 2020 | Articles

The food pyramid is definitely responsible

Oh and.

The top 21 sources of calories of adults in the United States, ranked in descending order of % calories in the American diet:

But yep. Definitely that damn food pyramid.

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