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Anonymous ID: f19700 July 22, 2026, 12:05 a.m. No.24854506   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>4632

+1 To "give two shits" is an idiom meaning to care or be concerned about something. It is almost always used in the negative form (e.g., "I couldn't give two shits") to express total apathy. Explore Wiktionary or Four Thousand Mondays for more context on the phrase's usage.

Anonymous ID: f19700 July 22, 2026, 3:53 a.m. No.24854733   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>4734 >>4753

>>24854728

Origins and evolution

 

The food pyramid has its origins not in recommendations for a balanced diet but in food shortages. The USDA released the Basic 7 food guide in 1943 to help U.S. citizens cope with food rationing during World War II. As its name indicates, this guide divided foods into seven groups, among them bread and cereals, several covering fruits and vegetables, and meat and poultry. In Sweden in the 1970s, the National Board of Health and Welfare was tasked with tackling rising food costs. It came up with two food groups, titled “basic” and “supplementary.” This was a nutritionally problematic categorization, however, because “supplementary” foods included fruits, vegetables, meat, and fish. The Swedish government also relied on a dietary circle that resembled a cake divided into seven pieces. It did not tell the reader how much to consume of each piece.

 

It was in this somewhat confusing context that Anna-Britt Agnsäter, an educator who worked for a Swedish grocery cooperative, designed the food pyramid, which was published for the first time in 1974 in an issue of the cooperative’s magazine. She divided the pyramid into three levels. The bottom level included bread and other grains, legumes, potatoes, and milk. The middle level comprised fruits, vegetables, and juices. The top level covered eggs, meat, and fish. Agnsäter used a pyramid shape so as to indicate that a person should eat more foods from the bottom of the pyramid—the widest section—than from the top. Other Nordic countries soon designed their own food pyramids, and the shape was also adopted elsewhere.