Not My Pyramid
April 28, 2005 1:14 PM   Subscribe

MyPyramid.org (parody). Not to be confused with MyPyramid.gov. Well, maybe just a little.
posted by CrunchyGods (15 comments total)
 
Bravo to the creators of this website. Many, many gems on there...
posted by sdrawkcab at 1:26 PM on April 28, 2005


This new pyramid is an abomination:
"Vary your choices- with more fish, beans, peas, nuts, and seeds."
That's a far cry from eat less meat.
posted by The White Hat at 1:50 PM on April 28, 2005


Brilliant.
posted by fatllama at 2:12 PM on April 28, 2005


hippies. eat the meat.
posted by rxrfrx at 2:46 PM on April 28, 2005


Yay.
posted by alms at 2:53 PM on April 28, 2005


Oooh, if only more people would see this. I couldn't believe it when I saw the new pyramid, but then, I persist in being naive. It really is too much to expect straight advice on health from our own government. I wish somebody could get the publicity this ridiculous pyramid has got to deliver more substantial advice on nutrition than "keep eating the same ol' shit, but still remember the vegetables!"

3 cups of MILK? STANDARD?!? AAGH
posted by flavor at 3:02 PM on April 28, 2005


I get irritated by most satire, but I thought this was REALLY well done. I hope they do finish the parts that don't have content yet, because I want to see it all!
posted by Mayor Curley at 3:08 PM on April 28, 2005


Great find, CrunchyGods.

I think "A Plant-Based Diet Is a Healthy Choice--for Sissies" may be my favorite.

On a related note, former NYT restaurant critic William Grimes wrote about his experience eating the Uncle Sam diet for four days. It left him cranky and bloated. It's a great read, available here, if anyone's interested.
posted by Sully6 at 3:09 PM on April 28, 2005


Only 31% of Americans are obese, so clearly there's more to be done by 69% of Americans. In today's blame-others-first culture it would be easy to say, well, I can't eat more today because the sections of the USDA's website telling me how to eat more aren't finished. But you can! You can eat more today and help maintain the healthy Agribusiness economy that has grown through decades of collaboration with the USDA.


Fucking brilliant.
posted by fletchmuy at 3:33 PM on April 28, 2005


I really got a laugh out of "MEAT & beans."

This site does make some pretty good points. A lot of people seem to lack knowledge of those basic nutritional tenets, like staying away from processed carbs, and the tendency of major fruit and vegetable nutrients to break down during the cooking (and juicing) process.
posted by invitapriore at 5:03 PM on April 28, 2005


Not to be confused with MyPyramid.gov.

Right, because on this page when I clicked submit, I didn't have to wait 25 minutes for the damned site to finally tell me just HOW MANY BEANS I HAVE TO EAT. Thanks, great site.
posted by jessamyn at 9:37 PM on April 28, 2005


The American consumer expects freedom of choice while selecting what they will eat and freedom trumps science in this case (this case being the food industry's need for greater profits). If you can work out the science to support the needs of the Agribusiness industry, then we'll gladly publish whatever you come up with!

Great stuff. In so many cases, "it's funny because it's true." Also on a meta level it shows how together and with-it our government is that they didn't think, before announcingthe .gov site, to shell out the twenty bucks or so for the .org domain.
posted by soyjoy at 7:52 AM on April 29, 2005


the tendency of major fruit and vegetable nutrients to break down during the cooking (and juicing) process.

How does jucing break down nutrients? I realize that juice doesn't capture fiber, and is thus inferior to and less filling than whole fruit, but I didn't know that it broke nutrients down. Any links?
posted by Kwantsar at 8:13 AM on April 29, 2005


Kwantsar: Most packaged juice is pasteurized, which destroys some vitamins, minerals and enzymes. So maybe they didn't so much mean the juicing process as the post-juicing, pre-packaging processes.
posted by obloquy at 11:40 AM on April 29, 2005


I couldn't find any official links, although google showed many sites written by non-scientists who seemed to agree with me.

It's not immediate, although I seem to remember reading that many of the nutrients retained by the fibers of the fruit are lost when that matrix is destroyed.

On preview: obloquy also makes a good point.
posted by invitapriore at 11:43 AM on April 29, 2005


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