Will America’s food pyramid finally be flipped? This iconic image, though officially retired, is still the most prominent reflection of our nation’s nutrition policy, with its hefty base of bread, breakfast cereal, and pasta. Today, many experts believe those should be swapped with the pyramid’s more slender sections of protein and fat — a change that would do more to reverse chronic disease than any other initiative of the Trump administration’s “Make America Healthy Again” agenda.
The pyramid was flipped once before — on South Park, of all places. Faced with America’s “all-alarm” obesity emergency, animated officials decided to invert the diagram. “Nutrition is stabilizing!” — or so they claimed.
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