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What
Americans Are Really Eating (unfortunately): Looking
at the same thing in terms of total calories consumed Looking
at calories consumed Fruit:
about 3% (calorie calculations and graphs
courtesy of William Harris, MD) Also see: Got Milk? Then get breast, colon or prostate cancer, too! To see the optimum diet for
those who want Also see our archive for much more about dairy. |
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You've
may have seen the food pyramid that the United States Department of Agriculture
(USDA) put together and distributes, suggesting their view of a healthy
diet. After decades of encouraging people to eat lots of meat and
dairy, the USDA now recommends greatly limiting consumption of both.
(The USDA is 
also
charged with helping the meat and dairy industries to profit and flourish
-- which is an obvious conflict of interest -- and the consumer's health
has always lost out at the USDA, and continues to lose out today.)
The
USDA hasn't been very effective in getting their present view of health
across to the American people. The average American eats
nothing resembling the USDA recommended dietary guidelines.
According to the USDA itself, in 1994 the average American ate the following:
That
totals over four pounds of food per day per person -- and nearly forty
percent of that is milk and dairy -- which makes one very lopsided
food pyramid! 
The
average American, rather than following health guidelines of having little
or no milk and dairy products -- has milk and dairy as the BASE
of their diet. Milk and dairy are the chief ingredient
in the Standard American Diet. 
It
is little wonder, then, that heart disease and cancer run rampant in the
U.S. 
Milk
is an excellent source of growth hormones, fat, cholesterol, allergenic
proteins, blood, pus, antibiotics, bacteria, and viruses, and what the
dairy industry touts as "the perfect food." 
