I was over on LinkedIn yesterday — which is always a mistake, but I need some idea of what people are saying — when I saw a lot of hand-wringing from the mid-wit experts with credentials about the new USDA food pyramid.
Apparently it’s the worst thing since the last time Trump spoke.
The new guidelines include such atrocities as:
- Prioritize high-quality, nutrient-dense protein foods as part of a healthy dietary pattern.
- Protein serving goals: 1.2–1.6 grams of protein per kilogram of body weight per day
- Healthy fats are plentiful in many whole foods, such as meats, poultry, eggs, omega-3–rich seafood, nuts, seeds, full-fat dairy, olives, and avocados.
- Significantly reduce the consumption of highly processed, refined carbohydrates, such as white bread, ready-to-eat or packaged breakfast options, flour tortillas, and crackers.
How awful.
As I skimmed the new guidelines I found nothing to disagree with. I’d find it hard to create a better summary of how I already eat, frankly. I get a little more protein because my daily calories skew toward the low side right now, but otherwise?
I don’t see the cause of the freak-out. Those most upset look exactly how you would expect for the crowd more concerned with being right than what happens to real people.
Beyond that, I have thoughts on why this is even an issue worth getting mad about.
First, there is something wrong in a person’s psyche if they worship at the feet of the pharisees staffing the barely-functional bureaucracies of Western democracies [sic].
Simping for the government and its approved manager-experts is contempt-worthy low-status behavior associated with dogs and peasants.
Have some pride in yourself.
Second, if you need the government to think for you in matters of health and food and so forth, you’re already cooked. You’re done. Hang it up.
Experts love to cook up guidelines, manifestos, position statements and white papers and pat themselves on the back for a job well done.
The fact that nothing materially changes in response to their word-spells?
Who cares. Government bureaucrats aren’t accountable to reality.
Take responsibility and think for yourself. That’s the only path.
Third, what is it with people and their addictions to petty drama?
The reason I don’t associate with most people belonging to what we laughably call the “educated classes” is because they have an obnoxious tendency to lock in on office-drama politicking or drama down at the HOA and turn it into their identity.
I don’t care about your office drama. Your life is boring and everything you care about is someone else’s agenda which you treat as if God Himself handed it to you on stone tablets. Busy-bodies arguing over micro-details and avoiding anything resembling the big picture outcomes.
Find something to do with your life besides being a professional bug-man arguing over somebody else’s idiot rules and regulations.
Fourthly, majoring in the minors never got anybody anywhere.
You’ve never once changed your behaviors, much less made any major changes in your appearance, performance, or health, by reading these lists of horse-sheet “value” posted on social media.
The one thing I see over and over again is all this “value” which obsesses over micro-details of food or training or some BS biochemical pathway with no connection to any manifest result that you would ever notice in your life.
If you allow that junk into your mind, all you’re doing is training yourself to absorb useless facts and pretend that your “education” makes you better off.
The fact is you’ve never done a blessed thing with that information and you never will.
Firstly, the information is useless junk from dubious interpretations of science which should, given the atrocious state of published research, itself be doubted.
Secondly, you’re teaching yourself to substitute collecting facts for taking action.
Do I sound fired up today? I hope so.
I’m flashing back to all the reasons I got out of this “fitness industry” circus.
Most people are unmotivated and uninterested in anything but moping around in the unwanted lives they built for themselves, and attacking anyone or anything that would snap them out of it.
Human beings love nothing more than the chains they put on themselves.
If these same people want to be “fact addicts” who never do anything, who am I to argue?
I am wasting my precious words and life-energy trying to speak to them.
Maybe I’m wrong. But that’s sure how it appears to me.
Do I continue talking to myself in front of an uninterested audience that is bored to death?
Should I write about sex and money instead? That would draw a lot more attention and energy than teaching people how to push rocks up a hill.
I’m thinking that’s what I’m going to do.
Anyway, I like the new USDA food pyramid. You’d do hard to go wrong by following it.
And you’d hardly go wrong by joining us inside our community where we ignore the nonsense and make spectacular changes to our bodies and lives.
Matt Perryman