Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
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So it was the recommendations that would go be reflected in the food pyramid.
It was hundreds of pages long and it was incomprehensible.
And it was driven by all the mercantile impulses that had corrupted the food pyramid for 50 years.
And it was written by lobbyists.
It was written by the food industry lobbyists and the same impulse that put Froot Loops at the top of the food pyramid.
which isn't even a food.
Fruit Loops were at the top of the food.
Fruit Loops were at the top recommendation of the food pyramid.
You can ask them to look up the old food pyramid.
Oh, yeah, as if that's good for you.
Do they even add vitamins to cyanide?
It's not going to make it any better for you.
So how did โ So what we did is we got the best nutritionists in the country.
We got Mark Hyman and we got the nutritionists from the best universities in the country and we put them all in a room.
And I thought it was going to take a month.
It took 11 months because they fought over every recommendation and everything is cited in the source so that we know we have good science.
But some of this stuff โ
Because of regulatory malpractice all these years, some of the studies simply haven't been done.
So there are knowledge gaps, which we should not have.
So now we have a food pyramid.