The Food Pyramid

So I have to tell you.   I was reading an article from Newsweek that was pretty entertaining, "Ten things that changed the way we eat."   I was pretty surprised that the food pyramid hasn't been around since the 70's like everything else I learned in school, instead it was instituted into classrooms in 1992. It's amazing, that growing up with technology, I forget that it didn't always exist.  For instance on the first slide it talked about allrecipes.com one of my favorite places to go to get ideas, especially if I have limited ingredients and need to be creative.  See below for slide about the food pyramid.

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I agree, why -do- we need so many carbs?