Sold a Story: How Teaching Kids to Read Went So Wrong

Re:Sold a Story: How Teaching Kids to Read Went So Wrong by brodouevencode on Monday April 17, 2023 @11:58AM (#35602647)

Nit:

> If medical doctors were routinely taught something wrong and contrary to the published research at medical schools, we'd probably be thinking about a similar suit

But we don't see one with respect to popular nutritional advice, which is in a very dismal state with the old food pyramid being promoted as the way and no one can agree on anything because nothing is reproducible.

So, maybe not the best analogy.

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Re:Sold a Story: How Teaching Kids to Read Went So Wrong by nostromo on Monday April 17, 2023 @12:50PM (#35603355)

Well, the old food pyramid hasn't been used in almost 20 years now.

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Re:Sold a Story: How Teaching Kids to Read Went So Wrong by xapata on Monday April 17, 2023 @01:31PM (#35603837)

> hasn't been used

What has it been replaced with? I try to keep up with health literature and am not familiar with the food pyramid's replacement. Perhaps it hasn't received as much advertisement as the food pyramid did.

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Re:Sold a Story: How Teaching Kids to Read Went So Wrong by avhon1 on Monday April 17, 2023 @02:04PM (#35604268)

The USDA Food Pyramid was replaced in 2005 with MyPyramid. http://web.archive.org/web/20050830024356/http://mypyramid.g...

In 2011, the pyramid was done away with altogether and replaced with MyPlate, which remains the USDA's current nutritional guide graphic. https://www.myplate.gov/

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Re:Sold a Story: How Teaching Kids to Read Went So Wrong by toast0 on Monday April 17, 2023 @03:25PM (#35605292)

The food pyramid and its replacements come from the USDA. They're there to sell farm products. And maybe help with nutrition for farm workers.

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