US Department of Agriculture Recommendations

2010 School lunches less fat and more green and yellow vegetables. The problem is that it takes 10 - 15 lbs of green and yellow vegetables to generate 2000 calories/day. So kids were hungry.

“ Bread and starches are Fattening”

1979 MSU study of overweight undergraduate men - had to eat 12 slices of bread a day - any type and anyway they wanted and then eat whatever else they wanted. At the end of 8 weeks they all had lost weight and their cholesterols and triglycerides improved remarkably by over a 50 point drop on average.

WIC program is ok with bacon and cheese but not potatoes: Despite the fact that potatoes are low in fat, have all the protein that you need and are high in potassium, vitamin C etc.

Starches are very low in fat at 1-8 % on average 6-28 % calories in form of protein

Side note breast milk is 5 % protein and babies double their size in 5 months

2 studies:

One from early 20th Century 2 endurance athletes only potatoes and spices for 6 mo. Had to add fat in part way through as they could not keep weight up otherwise. No nutritional deficiencies and they felt fine and training was as usual.

Second one was larger in the middle part of the century and same result.

US congress because of the meat and dairy lobby will not allow the use of words like meat, dairy or eggs in recommendations , instead they must say saturated fat and cholesterol which only comes from those sources.

“ Fat you eat is the Fat you wear ! “

Only takes 3% of the calories of the fat you eat from animal sources to convert it into fat in your body , whereas it takes 30% of the calories of the starches you eat to convert it into fat in your body

Meat - 50-60 %of calories from fat ( lean hamburger still over 30 % of calories from fat ) Dairy 70 % of the calories come from fat
Rice 5 % calories
Corn 10 %

Potatoes 1 %