What was the food pyramid, why was it discontinued and why did it suggest so many servings of grain?

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I remember in high school FACS class having to track my diet and try to keep in line with the food pyramid. Maybe I was measuring servings wrong but I had to constantly eat sandwiches, bread and pasta to keep up with the amount of bread/grain needed. What was the rationale for this?

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Back then, say around the time of WW2, people were active; and country people, especially, worked hard at physical jobs. Not to mention walking from place to place. Just getting enough calories for all that energy was an expensive business. So there was much more emphasis on plain bread’n’butter.

To an extent, this still applies to growing children and teenagers.

Nowadays adults are far less active – and hopefully less poor. Need less carbohydrate and more fruit’n’veg.

QED

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