Binging on Bytes: The Danger of Overprocessed Engineering Content
It’s universally agreed that eating a lot of junk food and candy over your lifetime will lead to all sorts of problems: diabetes, increased cancer risk, obesity, heart problems, digestive issues, etc.
And if you grew up in the early 90s, maybe you learned these lessons from the “Food Pyramid”: an ominous, overly simplified, all encompassing guide to the various food groups. The pyramid was an attempt to teach the youth of America what acceptable portion sizes are, how to balance their diet, and which food groups to avoid.
Towards the bottom of the pyramid, forming the base of the whole structure, are the most essential foods: fruits, veggies, and basic grains. Further up, with less area of the overall pyramid, animal by-products like cheese, milk, eggs, and meat. And all the way at the top, with nearly no area of the pyramid at all, fats and sweets.
While the overall impact of this early 90s initiative is questionable, at best, in a culture consumed by fast food and cheap eats, the idea behind the food pyramid was simple: eat fewer foods high in fats and sugars. Especially those of the over-processed kind.
