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Your Government: Food Bullying You Since WWII

March 16, 2015 by Naomi Kritzer Leave a Comment

Dietary advice goes back approximately forever, but the U.S. government plunged into the business of dishing food advice during World War II with the Basic Seven: There are a couple of things about this chart I found eye-catching. The first was that butter had its own food group (along with “fortified margarine”). The second was…

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