Everyone's ancestry is different.

I'm Viking/northern European/Ireland via the Vikings - almost 100%. I have zero genetics from any southern based populations - zero.

Our family ancestry lived off fats, proteins, dairy, whole grains and root veggies - with a min amount of fruit and sugars. In that order.

My entire family is T2 diabetic - presumably from the old food pyramid and the SAD (standard American diet).

-With a grain/carb centric diet - I have all sorts of very negative health issues. Out of control T2, high cholesterol, inflammation, high blood pressure - complete metabolic disease.
-With a more Viking based diet - I have none of the above.

No food pyramid is a cover all for all people. No one diet plan is a cover all for all people. Not one of us can speak in absolutes about anything.

That being said - I personally think the new food pyramid is better overall than the old food pyramid. Carbs are not an essential nutrient - human bodies actually need very little. Diets based on heavy pasta, grains, cereals, fruits... =excess of many things we just flat don't need.

Couple that excess with the fact that most of the "grains" we have here in the US are so heavily modified and stripped of anything good - it all complies to where our population is right now. Which for the most part is fat and unhealthy.


Plant people - I have no problem with anyone wanting to be plant based, eat diets heavy in plants. But y'all here in the US need to consider something, and this is major -- our crops are sprayed with some NASTY STUFF. VERY NASTY STUFF. Stuff banned by most other places in the world.

Reduce cancer by eating fiber!! Fiber that is sprayed with some of the nastiest cancer causing agents known...