Health Care

Remembering George McGovern for his destructive food guidelines. McGovern supposedly shaped by prairie upbringing. I guess that means a devotion to forcing people to eat grains. He may have been the foreign peace candidate, but he was a big supporter of using violence against Americans. McGovern remembered as a man of principle. If by principle, you mean a man who violence to inflict untold damage on the American people the last 40 years, then I can agree with you.

No science behind McGovern's food guidelines. History of McGovern food pyramid.

"The USDA Food Pyramid has its origins in the practice of agricultural chemistry in the late 1800s. Wilbur Olin Atwater, Ph.D., an agricultural chemist who founded and directed the Office of Experiment Stations (OES) for the USDA, wrote the first dietary guideline. "
"n 1902, Mr. Atwater published a USDA Farmer’s Bulletin which emphasized the importance of variety, proportionality, and moderation in healthful eating in the diets of American males. In his research, he determined that the calorie was a means to measure the efficiency of a diet. He calculated that different types of food produced different amounts of energy, and he stressed the importance of a cheap and efficient diet that included more proteins, beans, and vegetables, and to limit the intake of fat, sugar and other starchy carbohydrates. "

This is just the opposite of government's food pyramid. Eventually McGovern used Ancel Keys corrupt study to promote the grains grown by his cronies.