Pyramid Music

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This is a couple years old, but I hasn't heard about it until hearing the last segment of the latest edition of On The Media, about the government's new food pyramid(s). (Both the AP and The Harvard School of Public Health have more details on that topic.)

So anyway, apparently MTV has or had a cartoon called Clone High USA about modern teenage clones of dead famous people. And on the second episode, Marilyn Manson (native of where I'm currently living) played a nutritionist singing this bouncy ditty about the (old) food pyramid (with only one word that sounds like you'd expect him to sound)...

The ancient pharoahs were not too bright they say
but they made one contribution that I live by to this day.
It's the food pyramid, and it's approved by the USDA.

Oh, grains are the foundation, so please take my advice
Have five to eleven servings of bread, cereal, or rice.
Three to five of vegetables, and four of fruits is best
their antioxidents and fiber help you to digest.
Three servings of yogurt, milk, and cheese
will help your bones and subsidize the cattle industry.
A body needs to grow
and growing takes proteins
that's why meat can be a tasty treat like fish or human beings.
And when you eat your sweets, make sure you try
to limit your servings, or you'll DIE!!!

Everybody!

My body is a pyramid that's made of healthy food
so do what we say,
(yeah)
eat right every day.
I
love
you!

(Buy American.)

(As a vegetarian, however, I would be remiss if I didn't include mention a vegetarian food pyramid. :-)