I read somewhere that when the USDA was originally creating the food pyramid, it met [behind closed doors] with the food industry...and the one industry they spent the most time with: The Grain Industry. One can only wonder what happened behind those closed doors, but when the food pyramid was released...Grain became the center of a "healthy" diet. Kinda makes you suspicious, don't it ??? Think about this for a second...recently, the Gov't wanted to recomend we take in no more than a certain amount of added sugars. The Sugar Industry met with them and the Recomendation was changed to "eat a diet moderate in added sugars." The Sugar, Wheat, Corn, and Potato Industries are very powerfull in Washington. It would not suprise me in the least if there was graft involved in the structure of the food pyramid.