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Excerpt from UNHOLY TRINITY Chapter 7

In Chapter Two we covered The Food Pyramid and U.S. Dietary Guidelines for Americans which, sadly, led to the epidemic of diabetes and obesity, now called Diabesity.

The guidelines are periodically updated, and we now have them for the period 2020 to 2025. These guidelines have become highly influential in the way Americans are fed, resulting in the S.A.D. (Standard American Diet).

These guidelines are far reaching in that they are followed by the Department of Education for students’ school lunch programs, the entire U.S. military, patients in hospitals, feeding programs for the elderly, all prisons, WIC (Women, Infants, and Children Nutrition Program), and are recommended by health professional associations such as the American Medical Association, and, incredibly, the American Diabetes Association.¹

New York Times Bestselling author and science journalist, Nina Teicholz from Nutrition Coalition and other researchers did an investigative study that was published in 2022 in Public Health Nutrition that exposed glaring conflicts of interest for the committee members of this latest version of the U.S. Dietary Guidelines.²

“Results: Our analysis found that 95% of the committee members had COI (conflicts of interest) with the food, and/or pharmaceutical industries and that particular actors, including Kellogg, Abbott, Kraft, Mead Johnson, General Mills, Dannon and others had connections with multiple members.”

(Nutrition Coalition is a non-profit, non-partisan education organization that aims to improve health in America by ensuring that the public receives evidence-based nutritional advice. www.NutritionCoalition.us. They deserve our support.)

Of the 20-member advisory committee that developed these latest dietary guidelines, 19 of them had industry ties and received financial backing from large corporations involved in processed food manufacturing and the pharmaceutical drug industry.

The foods recommended by this committee are the most famous of the famous brand names (in your pantry, frig and medicine cabinet?) in unhealthy snacks, soda, candy, cereals, baked goods, and so on that are loaded with refined carbs, sugar, and seed oils.

This is why our precious school kids are being fed cinnamon rolls, chocolate milk, chicken tenders, Doritos, chocolate chip cookies, potato chips, Pop Tarts, “juice” boxes, pizza, corn chips, chocolate donuts, Nachos, “candy” cereals such as Frosted Flakes, Lucky Charms, Honey Cheerios, and other unhealthy items unfit for growing bodies.³

There was a government-funded conference held at the White House in September of 2022 that focused on nutrition, health, and hunger in America.^{4 5} During it, one of the main organizers of the event and Dean of the Tufts School of Nutrition, presented a newly designed “food pyramid” that took three years and millions of taxpayer dollars to create.

Incredibly, Lucky Charms, Frosted Flakes and 70 other sugary, ultra-processed, brand name cereals were rated higher (healthier) than eggs, cheese, and beef!

And eggs, cheese, and beef were at the very bottom of the list! Meaning, they were bad for you. Insane, since humans have eaten these three for thousands of years before all the new diseases of modernity.

And no, eating red meat does not cause cancer like many like to warn. But of course, if you are eating red meat and adding French fries, a sugary milkshake or coke, and a bag of M&Ms as dessert and maybe even smoke, then, of course, you are in danger of many diseases. (See Chapter 5)

In February of 2023, the makers of popular cereal brands like Froot Loops, Fruity Pebbles, Trix, and other child obesity drivers, threatened to sue the FDA (Food and Drug Administration) on its new proposal that would prevent them from labeling their products as “healthy.” Bravo to the FDA on this one.⁶

The FDA’s new rule would allow no more than 2.5 grams of sugar per serving in order to be labeled as healthy. Lucky Charms, Trix, etc. each contain about 12 grams of sugar per serving.

Researchers have found that kids typically eat more than twice the recommended serving size of cereal for breakfast, getting 24 grams of sugar which is equivalent to several candy bars.

What is the basis of their threatened lawsuit against the FDA? They say the FDA’s new rule would deny ultra-processed food manufacturers of their right to free speech by not allowing them to label these health-destroying foods as being healthy. I kid you not.

So it’s no surprise that the percentage of obesity among children and adolescents in the U.S. has tripled since the inception of the U.S. Dietary Guidelines.⁷ Today, at least 20% of our youngsters between the ages of 2-19 are obese.⁸

When shopping, you must become expert at reading the labels on the food you intend to buy so you don’t remain addicted and trapped by the Unholy Trinity of carbs, sugar, and vegetable oils.

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1. DGA, Dietary Guidelines for Americans, 2020-2025
2. M Mialon, et al, Conflicts of interest for members of the U.S. 2020 Dietary Guidelines Advisory Committee, Public Health Nutrition, 2022, PubMed, https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/35311630/
3. Jessica Wharton, A Deeper Look: Dietary Guidelines Influence School Meals and More, LOW-CARB Action Network, January 2021, https://lowcarbaction.org/dietary-guidelines-influence-school-meals-and-more/
4. “Comparison of Foods by Food Compass Score within Categories,” (2022), Food Compass, https://sites.tufts.edu/foodcompass/research/data/
5. F Ortenzi, et al. (2023) “Limitations of the Food Compass Nutrient Profiling System,” SocAXiv Papers, https://osf.io/preprints/socarxiv/eu578/
6. Lee Fang (2023) Fruity Pebbles and Lucky Charms Threaten to Block “Healthy” Food Labeling Guidelines in Court, The Intercept, https://theintercept.com/2023/03/01/fda-healthy-food-label-cereal-brands/
7. “Obesity,” U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, September 18, 2018, https://www.cdc.gov/healthyschools/obesity/index.htm
8. Childhood Obesity Facts, CDC, https://www.cdc.gov/obesity/data/childhood.html