I’m planning on teaching a “Cooking & Nutrition” class as an elective at the learning center my children attend. It is going to be full of keto recipes 
I found this link while searching for different diets from around the world. I wish they went back further (40s and 50s) and went ahead more as well.
Teaser Image (United States, 2011)
A few of questions.
First, 3641 calories per day for USA? Is that realistic? I presume Canada is lumped in with USA.
Second, ‘Sugar & Fat’ is a single category - and the largest in terms of total calories. This is due I’m sure to fat’s 9 calories per gram. This is, of course, the worst possible combination of nutrients - why lumped together? To hide the oil seed totals? To make it look like sugar and fat are the problem?
Third, switch view to ‘Grams per Person’ and Dairy & Eggs becomes the biggest category. ‘Sugar & Fat’ becomes the smallest category. Again, why are dairy and eggs lumped together? Aside from some cheeses, dairy contains substantial carbs whereas eggs do not. To make it look like dairy and eggs are the problem?
Thanks for the link. The time slider is very useful to show how constituents of the diet change over time.
It’s that nebulous “other” category that’s the scariest one, food additives probably make up most of that! 
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I ran that graphic a bunch of times looking at the individual stats. It really doesn’t change as much as I thought it would, and the highest average calories daily I saw was about 1000 less than the amount on the graphic in the original post. Curious…
Yeah, I wish they separated it out as well. It could use a lot of work to make it better, but I mostly thought it was interesting. The calories is also a shock. Not sure how they came up with all the data…
Interesting. I’m not fond of the… partition? Sorry, sometimes I have problems with finding the right English word even after decades.
Fat and sugar, it’s crazy, I quickly looked up what produce mean and I wonder if it’s only vegetables and fruits. If it is, my other is pretty much, second only to dairy and eggs… Maybe oily seeds are in the fat and sugar ( it’s a group with a super huge variety then), other is my third and last significant group then. I wouldn’t lump dairy and eggs together but it’s not nearly that problematic. But fat and sugar and possibly oily seeds together…
Booze would be interesting to see in some countries. German people’s beer consumption was mentioned but my little country, Hungary would be pretty impressive too.
I was a bit surprised about the calories. I wonder what it means regarding excess fat but it seems quite clear (not like we aren’t very well aware) overeating is a problem in some countries.
Poor Somalians, though. North Korea has it bad too but either of these are surprising.
Multiple hundreds of calories from those seem pretty impossible to me… Or is it some overly popular food additive with a significant calorie content?
It probably includes lots of stuff, booze might have a significant percentage unlike gluten or condiments (maybe without the fat/sugar part? oh wait what about the protein part of oily seeds? “fat and sugar” isn’t totally clear to me, maybe it’s only fat and sugar, nothing else and oily seeds split and go to two places).
@Shinita Sorry, I was kind of joking but I also wondered what foods were other and I thought about all the artificial creamers, whipped topping, diabetic candy, baby formula, protein powder drinks and stuff like that too. But also lots of chemicals.
