The food triangle came about the same time we started processing foods, yes? Another thing I have an issue with is the scheduled meal times, breakfast lunch and dinner. I eat when I am hungry, and for my lifetime I was never hungry when I first got up, never. It takes a couple of hours for me, and, I may not eat until 7 oclock, or, I may eat at 4pm. I may only eat one meal a day, at around 3pm, and have a piece of fruit or some cottage cheese and cukes. I do smoothies sometimes and thats all I need except for that fat craving and then I may cook up a pork chop or a small steak. Some people assume every house has a box of cereal, when my sister visited once, I saw her looking through my cupboards wanting to know where "the cereal was". I showed her the bin with whole oats in the pantry. I like my first meal to be protein, love steak for breakfast, I don't do much bacon anymore because of the MCAS, it's high in histamines, as any aged foods are. Bummer. When my baby was born, by the age of 4 months, he somehow started eating late in the morning too, so, he was nursed, then switched to a bottle about 7am, of goats milk, as I had my coffee he would have a small bottle of apple juice, and then he would eat his baby food meal (which I blended myself) at around 11 am. He would come back from school with his lunch untouched, and be starving, so he would eat as soon as he came home and then we would eat together again around 7. The child never liked carbs until he got older, would pull the meat out of a sandwich and the cheese. I remember when he was around 4. I made a porterhouse for myself, he started eating the little pieces, then wanted more and more, ended up eating my entire steak. I had to make another for myself. The body knows what it needs (if you dont mess it up with sugar), if you get cravings, look up the nutrients in that food, and that is what it is craving. Once you begin perverting the system with sugar though, it is downhill from there. ANd boxed cereal is the first introduction for many kids to a sugar addiction.