Viliam_Bur comments on Critiquing Gary Taubes, Part 3: Did the US Government Give Us Absurd Advice About Sugar? - Less Wrong

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Comment author: EHeller 29 December 2013 10:10:25PM 1 point [-]

Ok, replace "as many of them as possible" with "a lot of them", my point still stands.

A lot is relative- one more serving of starch a day then your combined fruit and vegetable servings. I know paleos that eat enough rice to be (inadvertently) eating the food pyramid recommendations.

Comment author: Eugine_Nier 30 December 2013 09:11:27PM -2 points [-]

I was responding to Brillyant's claim:

If your objective is to try and provide people with the lowest hanging heuristic for how to avoid unwanted weight gain, avoiding high fat foods is a pretty good candidate, since fat has the highest caloric content per gram (9) when compared to protiens and carbs (4). This appears to be the traditional view that the crazy government is trying to shove down our throats, so to speak

And pointing out that if this were the motivation, they wouldn't have put starches at the bottom.

Comment author: EHeller 30 December 2013 11:31:18PM 0 points [-]

Why not? The pyramid says basically "avoid added fats and sugars", and then suggests a diet thats 4 servings of meat and cheese, 5 servings of fruit and vegetables and six servings of starches.

I don't see how this contradicts Brillyant.

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