The Food Pyramid
Where we are on the timeline
After White Flour and the First Metabolic Wave, government nutrition guidance gives the grain question a new public form. Bread moves from prayer and household to policy graphic.
This chapter avoids a conspiracy claim.
The policy claim is strong: twentieth-century American guidance repeatedly placed grains near the base of ordinary eating advice. The theological claim is indirect: the culture already knew how to honor bread. The causal claim is cautious: policy reflected science, agriculture, politics, industry, and public-health goals, not a simple religious inheritance.
Sections
- Before The Pyramid
- Dietary Goals And Guidelines
- Six To Eleven Servings
- Policy Without Theology
- How To Challenge A Foundation
Cross Links
- What The Evidence Can Bear sets the evidentiary limits.
- Daily Bread Expands shows the older cultural grammar.
- Chapter 19, Disarming the Reflex, will return to practical resolution.