There are moments in history when we look back and ask, “How did everyone believe that?” Like how smoking was once considered a healthy habit (and that it was even promoted by doctors) would be one. Cocaine in Coca-Cola as a health benefit being another! The global-government-backed food pyramid will almost certainly be one of them.
Promoted by the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) for decades, the pyramid instructed children and families to consume 6–11 servings of grains per day. It was printed in textbooks, taught in classrooms and displayed in doctors’ offices. Parents trusted it. Schools institutionalised it. An entire generation grew up believing that a grain-heavy, low-fat diet was the scientific gold standard.
Yet we now know this is provably not the case. In today’s video Jordan Peterson states how this food pyramid has been proved to be a scam. Even at the time that the food pyramid was due to be released in 1992, it needed delays because of objections by the meat and dairy industries. In 2001 Harvard expert Walter Willett publicly challenged the scientific logic of the pyramid, calling it “tremendously flawed” for equating all fats as bad and promoting a high-carbohydrate base unsupported by the best available nutrition research at those times. Yet it was a further 10 years until the food pyramid was revised. Those warnings were allegedly sidelined. Instead, agricultural and marketing interests appear to have shaped the guidance. The result? A national nutrition policy that prioritised economics for the few over the health of many.
Look at the outcomes.
Consequences of the Food Pyramid Scam
Since the food pyramid’s introduction, obesity rates have surged with estimates calculating the increase being between 100-200% in some demographics! Metabolic disorders have become commonplace. Cognitive impairment is rising in parallel with chronic inflammation and insulin resistance. We are now facing an obesity epidemic in the UK and USA in particular. Obesity is not just a superficial issue. It is a gateway condition. It increases the risk of heart disease, stroke, cancer, cognitive decline and countless other illnesses.
And here’s where the cycle becomes disturbing.
Natural fats and nutrient-dense animal foods were demonised for decades, despite emerging research challenging that narrative. In fact many nutritionists now say that low carbs, high healthy fats, together with cruciferous vegetables is key to a healthy diet. While the specifics are still being debated, one thing the science now agrees on is that a high carbohydrate diet has fueled the obesity epidemic in the western world.
Yet according to Mr Peterson organisations like the American Diabetes Association have continued recommending carbohydrate consumption for diabetics — despite the basic biological fact that carbohydrates convert into glucose in the body.
Why would government departments allow and enable their people to become chronically sick and unhealthy?
No doubt this is an uncomfortable question because it means entertaining the possibility that the people who claim to lead and empower us, have slowly been attacking us through our diet.
The answer lies in vested interests. Once a framework becomes embedded in education systems, medical schools, public health messaging and food production supply chains, reversing it becomes politically and economically costly. It would undermine trust. It would threaten industries built around the scam.
Indeed, when populations become chronically ill, pharmaceutical interventions expand. Lifelong medication for diabetes. Cholesterol-lowering drugs. Antidepressants. Cognitive decline treatments. The management of disease becomes a vast industry. Drug companies do not profit as much when they pre-emptively heal the population as when they do when providing ongoing treatment. The weight loss industry in the USA was worth an estimated $90 billion in 2023 and is expected to reach over $305 billion in 2030 by treating over 100 million consumers! A sick and unhealthy population doesn’t just make money, it makes that population extremely dependent. The nation’s population is a commodity for the very government they elected – and their Establishment overlords who were never elected.
And so the agenda-driven guidance persists.
This is how institutional scamming can operate, not necessarily through dramatic conspiracies, but through quiet alignment of policies driven by vast financial incentive. Agriculture, food manufacturing, pharmaceutical industries and regulatory bodies all intersect. When those incentives align and the population buys in, even the most flawed ideas can endure for generations.
The most concerning part? The food pyramid was taught to young children and parents. Nutritional habits are formed early. When the foundation is wrong, the consequences compound over a lifetime. Entire generations have been scammed into unhealthy living.
This is not simply a debate about carbs versus fats. It is a warning about how government-endorsed “science” can be shaped by politics and profit, even in the face of contradictory evidence. Even in the face of disease and death. It is about how easily public trust can be leveraged and how slowly institutional narratives change once embedded.
If one of the most widely promoted health frameworks of the last half-century can be fundamentally wrong, what else do we accept without scrutiny? What else have we already accepted without scrutiny?
Because when policy, profit and public health intertwine, the cost is rarely paid by institutions. It is paid by families; the everyday middle and working class man, woman and child.
What can we do about it?
Public inertia and blind trust is one of the reasons why the food pyramid went decades without challenge. Regulatory bodies ought to work with full transparency around financial ties. Advisory decisions must be made public so that dissenting scientific voices cannot be quietly buried. But you know that will never happen if left to their own devices.
Not unless government and regulatory bodies know that the public i.e. you, reading this right now, will not tolerate being scammed. One of the very few ways this will happen is if the public come together to lobby relevant parties over a concerted period of time and at a level of numbers that these relevant parties and associated interests have to listen! Too often the public come together for a protest, make a noise and then move onto the next issue that is often driven by a media agenda linked to the government and/or associated private interests anyway. Why? Well that’s part of the greater scam – they’ve indoctrinated people to be lazy, to give up quickly and not persist when life gets really hard.
Lobbying the UK Government on mainstream media standards
One of the first issues that Lighthouse will be lobbying the government on is the power of the BBC and how they abuse it. Why? Ask yourself, who pushes the Establishment agenda onto you? The mainstream media. Where do we get most of our information and health and scientific findings from? Who presents us with government mandates regarding vaccines and pandemics? If you want to be involved in lobbying the BBC and/or any other institution you believe needs it, comment below. If you have not yet signed up to follow our work at Citizen Intervention Global, you can do so here.
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As I approach the second half of my life, I’ve only been recently learning what truly is the basis of good, healthy nutrition. I was raised on a diet of colourful cereal, frozen meals and just nothing that would build me to become a healthy growing adult. Knowing that this was planned and designed makes me immediately think, this is a form of global, incremental genocide. It’s human beings in positions of power literally experimenting on and destroying their own race, for their own short term profit. May God have mercy on them.
When I found out about the Keto diet in my 30’s I couldn’t believe it! To be told that eating healthy fats is healthier than carbs and would help me lose weight quicker..it was the most counter intuitive piece of health advice I’d ever heard. Especially when I followed the foo pyramid and would eat bread instead of fats!! Again..what would have been called a conspiracy was reality. When you see the hundreds of billions being spent on Ozempic, you see why we were lied too..what a Scam!!
What a devastating truth to come to terms with. I remember growing up with a completely different understanding of healthy fats, and now I intentionally make sure they’re included in my diet. But as highlighted here, this goes far beyond individual food choices. The wider consequences for people’s health and lives have been nothing short of catastrophic.
Real change will only come through a strong, united public response — through informed citizens who are willing to lobby, challenge, and demand accountability. That’s what I continue to pray for, and it’s the very work we’re seeking to do through Citizen Intervention Global.
Thank you for this article. I truly hope it helps to educate, awaken, and open the eyes of many more people.
I remember speaking to someone who trained as a nutritionist and they said that whenever they see young children tucking into McDonalds bought by their parent, they literally described it as child abuse… and in many ways it is! It pains me when I see obese parents with obese children. The main reason for this is that the child seems convinced that their body shape and health condition is already set and they are basically doomed to become overweight.
More and more I’m seeing these revelations into how and why conventional thinking around diet and nutrition came to be what it is today. I am astonished that it’s more based on marketing and politics than the science and the facts. We’re literally eating ourselves to death!
I have been very grateful for discovering things like the importance of body pH, the most important nutrients as well as the impact of fasting. I have seen the vital need to do whatever I can to live in a way that is healthy in order to prevent ill-health wherever possible. That’s so contrary to conventional thinking despite all the research and the evidence. Meanwhile we see the odd tax on sugar come into play, but this then gives rise to arguably unhealthier alternatives. We rarely look at addressing the root causes as to why people eat unhealthily.
Jordan Peterson is spot on: this must be one of the biggest crimes in human history. Making an entire population unhealthy for the sake of profit margins, and misleading fellow citizens in the way the food industry did with the food pyramid, is criminal and evil. We need to protect our children, commit ourselves to the truth, and accept that we cannot blindly trust the Establishment, the government, and their mainstream media, such as the BBC.
Thank you for helping me become more aware of these massive societal scams.
We have been scammed because we so foolishly put our trust in our governments and institutions thinking they had the best experts, research, information and advice and more so, had our best interests at heart! The fact that, as Dr Peterson says in the clip, the government even went against the scientific expert advice to push it’s own political agenda and protect the interests of certain industries and companies is direct evidence against that foolish notion. We are called more than ever to do our own research and to seek our own sources and evidence for what is right and trustworthy when it comes to looking after ourselves and our health. The betrayal here over our whole lives is immense and the answer is showing the establishment that we won’t stand for it anymore, we will mobilise and unite in defence of ourselves against their scams now and in future.
This article frustrated me more than I expected — nutrition is so fundamental to our health, yet most of what we’ve been taught about it has been misdirection at best and harmful at worst. It’s crazy to think that generations have relied on guidelines that weren’t actually grounded in what our bodies genuinely need, and that institutions we trusted helped normalize it. If something as basic as how we feed ourselves can be so wrong for so long, it makes you wonder how many other “accepted truths” are just convenient myths. Thanks for laying this out so clearly. x x x x
The reality of this food pyramid scam is literally sickening. I have experienced many health challenges and had to extensively research to find accurate and evidenced information from the Bible or other sources, other than what has been fed to me through government mandates and the mainstream media.
As we have been reminded, this is not just about the food pyramid scam but how much we have taken as sacrosanct because it was in the newspaper or on TV or we were taught it at school. To say Scamtology is a petrifying reality is an understatement.
One of the biggest problems when growing up, being mentored or being taught / instructed by an authority is knowing when to listen to them and when not to.
In an emergency or when large scale coordination is needed, like a traffic accident or evacuation of a shopping centre, then listening to police and fire fighters is obviously the right thing to do. But when the government ‘recommends’ what to eat on a daily basis or tells me how to live my life day-to-day, I’m now far more sceptical and prepared to question what is happening.
May God bless us all.
This article has helped me to see the extent of how we have been and are being scammed. I say that because on one hand the establishment after telling us what to eat and why, scamming us into eating 3 meals a day. Breakfast is the most important meal of the day and so on. What happens? We get fat. Oh but the next scam is ready and waiting. Slimming world, weight watchers and many more weight loss scams. These are scams we need to be awakened to. Thank you for this article and helping us to see the food pyramid scam.
It’s the same with eating three meals a day, our bodies are designed for less frequency. It actually needs time of fasting to clear out the rubbish in our system. This was brought in because food production moved to industrial levels. Again, it’s another scam that has arisen to create wealth at the expense of the masses. I’m learning the truth directly myself, that grains aren’t healthy for us. Even dairy isn’t, but they push it. I no longer listen to the so called authority, we’ve got to do our own research. I’ve seen counter articles and material against the vast natural benefits of coconut, when you get underneath the people writing these things, they are paid by industries and big pharma who will benefit from the likes of coconuts being rubbished. The veil has to be removed and God bless you for doing it!!!