The murky past of food pyramids
How the wrong food advice breeds disease
Grains, featured in most food charts to be eaten as majority staples are loaded with glutens … and dairy carries equally potent toxins. These are now implicated in Parkinson’s, tumours, heart disease, dementia, depression and more.
To reduce toxins and avoid disease we recommend you choose a low toxin diet.
Now that studies have implicated food toxins like casein and gluten in serious incurable disease - we believe old-fashioned food pyramid charts should be set aside. Why? Because they all recommend toxin-laced choices like grains, legumes and dairy as ‘staples’.
But do you know how the Food Pyramid came about? It’s a fascinating story and one that will give you a whole new perspective on consumer food advice. Video:
Deborah explains how food pyramids - used widely today to guide consumer eating - give unfounded and incorrect nutritional advice - which leads to serious disease.
If you thought government food advisories were based on modern knowledge of nutrition - that is, how to stay well and avoid disease - you would be mistaken.
The publications of Wilbur Atwater from more than one hundred and twenty years ago formed the basis of today’s food pyramids and consumer advice on how to eat a healthy diet. However the information put forward had little to do with what is appropriate fuel for the human body - since they were only measuring how much energy is available from food.
What’s worse is - the reason it became the founding food advisory document for consumers all over the world - was because of two parties fighting for their share of spoils.
A Farmers’ Bulletin from 1902
Wilbur Atwater was a consultant to the US Department of Agriculture.
This was the publication upon which all ensuing nutritional advice was based.
There was no understanding of vitamins - or of anti nutrients (food toxins). The recommendations arose from a combination of two parties who both had pressing agendas: farmers who wanted to sell more of their produce - and politicians who needed the farmers’ votes to stay in power. So the booklet became a government-endorsed advisory - which served the interests of both parties . . . but not the interests of citizens.
Neither party had knowledge of human nutrition. Nonetheless - all succeeding versions of this advice have built upon the original assumption that grains like wheat, barley and corn … and milk products are essential for nourishment.
However a large bank of evidence indicates these choices are loaded with the very toxins that cause cancers, autoimmune disorders, mental illness, miscarriage, obesity, heart disease and others- along with compromised immunity which breeds infection.
Avoiding sickness - a low toxin diet
New findings about serious diseases like cancers and Parkinson’s point to the action of toxins carried by some foods. The way to be free of the toxins is to learn which foods are low toxin and which are not. The science-backed foodintol® LoTox Express online program has been developed specifically to help members reduce food toxins in their daily lives.
