Jan. 22, 2026 6 AM PT
To the editor: Visitor contributor Gene Baur’s op-ed misses the purpose completely (“New food pyramid is a recipe for health disasters,” Jan. 21). The issue isn’t the meals pyramid; it’s what we do to the meals.
Journey the globe and also you’ll discover individuals consuming a wide range of meals that, if positioned right into a pyramid, would look very completely different from our meals pyramids.
Vitamin researcher Weston A. Price did simply that a couple of century in the past. He discovered Indigenous cultures that ate meals that had been discovered of their native atmosphere — and in lots of instances, their weight loss plan was vastly completely different than ours. They usually didn’t undergo the identical well being issues that we undergo from. Usually, the distinction was that their meals wasn’t closely processed.
The processing of the meals is a giant difficulty in our burgeoning well being disaster. Whether or not we eat extra meat, much less meat, extra fat, much less fat, vegan or vegetarian is secondary. Robert Lustig makes a really compelling case in his guide “Metabolical” that our well being started to say no at about the identical time as meals began being closely processed.
Overlook the meals pyramid. Give individuals entry to actual meals — meals that hasn’t been closely processed — and you’d see lots of our continual well being issues start to say no.
David Tempest, Mar Vista
