1. Half the people who developed the food pyramid have ties to agribusiness.

2. And that's exactly what happens with PDBs in this food pyramid: They accumulate into the top of it.

3. 26 We were interested to read over the weekend in the Washington Postthat the demise of the Department of Agriculture's food pyramid – the government's visual guide to healthful eating — might be nigh.

4. So, when the USDA finally acknowledged that it was plants, rather than animals, that made people healthy, they encouraged us, via their overly simplistic food pyramid, to eat five servings of fruits and vegetables a day, along with more carbs.