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More Butter for Your Bread?

clips, health, nutrition, primary care, public health

 

USDA Nutrition Chart, 1943
The Atlantic, November 2011

A fresh debate on nutritional guidelines leads to the discovery of an old food wheel that listed butter as a recommended food group when the country was in need of bigger soldiers for war.

 

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