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Flipped Food Pyramid Debrief
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- Jan 16, 2026
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Summary
We promised last week to dive deeper into the newly flipped and revised Food Pyramid including sharing insights. Wednesday we did it live here on Substack and over on LinkedIn. You can watch and/or listen to a recording of that here or find it where you go for your regular podcast and video content. For some, watching or listening just isn’t a format that works, so we have put together a bit of a smorgarboard of a few highlights of the discussion, the deeper first principle design and human outcomes focused framework, as well as the detail we pulled together in advance of the session, some of which wasn’t explicitly covered. Ellen: Friends, we had quite the conversation this week. And I came prepared—believe it or not. I even successfully streamed on two platforms simultaneously without spending an hour troubleshooting. Growth, people. But here’s what kicked off the whole discussion, and I need you to appreciate this: The South Park episode we opened with? It’s from 2014. Season 18. Episode called “Gluten-Free Ebola.” It shows the food pyramid getting flipped upside down, fire-hosing grain fields, removing ultra-processed snacks. There’s even an inference to removing high fructose corn syrup. These guys weren’t just making jokes—they were predicting our present reality. (You can watch it below the link is on the image) Carter: So there’s nothing new about flipping the pyramid. It’s not that radical. It takes decades to change perspective. We had a food system that worked for us for 350,000 years. Our bodies were tuned to it. That’s System A. Then we dove into the idea that we wanted to boost yield. We ended famine. We decided we were going to have hero healthcare to solve awful diseases and eliminate pathogens. That’s System B. It worked—for what it was designed to do.…