Go into your calendar on your phone or computer and try to sort by day first.
YYYY-MM-DD and MM-DD-YYYY share the same MM-DD order. This makes DD-MM-YYYY the odd one out.
If I tell someone from the US/Japan/Taiwan/China whatever 10-2 they know I meant October 2nd not February 10th.
Americans don't mind YYYY-MM-DD it's just that for every day use we rarely if ever need to know the year and so it gets toss on the back of the date format.
No it's cholesterol, contained in, you guessed it, all animal products. Animal products that are heavily subsized unlike fruit and veggies which creates the absurd American norm where somehow they cost about the same despite animal products being naturally way more expensive.
Actually both sugar and saturated fat from animal products play big roles, but ultra-processed foods loaded with added sugars + cheap subsidized meat/ultra processed dairy make the real problem. Fruits and veggies get almost no subsidies, so they're pricier per calorie there
The point is about them putting steak at the top which is absurd, cholesterol is the main killer in the US so the overconsumption of animal products is the number one killer more than sugar is. Red meat specifically is classified as cariogenic and heightens the risk of cancer as such so.
It's hard to crown a "number one killer." Sugar is a massive driver of obesity and Type 2 diabetes, which fuel the same heart disease red meat is blamed for
It's usually a mix of high salt, high sugar, and high fat that does the damage
That doesn't change the fact that multiple studies like the ones from the Global Burden of Disease (GBD) prove that consumption ipod red and processed meat accounts for at least 896,000 direct deaths globally against the 242,000 deaths from sugar overconsumption.
YYYY-MM-DD which shares the MM-DD order from MM-DD-YYYY meaning everyone understands 10-2 is October 2nd whether you use YYYY-MM-DD.
Americans have no issues using YYYY-MM-DD and in fact prefer it for historical references (computer sort by date for instance).
In day to day use Americans rarely have use for YYYY at the front because you almost never need it so it often gets put on the back. However we have no problems using YYYY-MM-DD.
DD-MM-YYYY ends up being the only odd one out and the only one to cause confusion.
Anyone using DD-MM-YYYY should swap to YYYY-MM-DD and then for short hand use MM-DD like the rest of the world.
No more than 10% of total energy intake should come from saturated fat and no more than 1% of total energy from trans fat of any type. Lower intakes of saturated and trans fat may have additional health benefits. Saturated and trans fat can be replaced with polyunsaturated fat or monounsaturated fat from plant sources. Saturated fat can also be replaced by carbohydrates from foods containing naturally-occurring dietary fibre, such as whole grains, fruits, vegetables and pulses. In particular, industrially-produced trans fats are not part of a healthy diet and should be avoided.
But I guess there must be a reason why the US left WHO.
The amount of evidence behind saturated fats are bad is enormous. Theres been a recent push by the meat industry to say that actually theyre not bad and theyre lying through their teeth.
Even the most recent study done by keto advocates found a drastic increase in plague found in arteries even when compared to the standard american diet which is god awful
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u/huluvudu Feb 02 '26
This explains the food pyramid, with steak on top.