The place I got it from didn’t say, maybe the idea was to avoid people thinking that the unhealthy foods were the best because they were at the top? It was accompanied by three Greenlandic nutrition tips: Eat less sugar, eat varied and eat Greenlandic.
The Danish one looks similar to the ones I saw growing up in Norway, except I’m pretty sure fish would have been further down. I also wouldn’t be surprised if ours we’re made by a dairy company. There was such a push to get us to drink milk at school that I remember thinking I was going to get osteoporosis as a six-year-old (my grandma had to reassure me I would be fine as long as I ate enough yoghurt and cheese)
We had those campaigns as well. It was quite alienating to me since I haven’t been able to stomach the idea of drinking milk since I was a toddler. The idea that a healthy diet has to include milk still lingers in folk wisdom, it is basically the only source of nutritional calcium that people know about.
The dairy campaign extended into the classrooms (and still do) in the form of a “school milk” scheme in which parents can pay to have a quarter of a litre of milk delivered to their kids at school every day. The scheme was originally started way back in the day to make sure poor city kids at least got some nutrition and ever since the dairy lobby has managed to protect this unique sales channel.
The Danish version from 1984 published by the cooperative supermarket chain FDB (now Coop), the one I remember from my childhood, had eggs at the top:
Bonus: The Greenlandic food pyramid from 1982 (also by FDB) has seafood in the staple food tier
Why’s the Greenland one inverted?
The place I got it from didn’t say, maybe the idea was to avoid people thinking that the unhealthy foods were the best because they were at the top? It was accompanied by three Greenlandic nutrition tips: Eat less sugar, eat varied and eat Greenlandic.
Eat Greenland Dick
The Danish one looks similar to the ones I saw growing up in Norway, except I’m pretty sure fish would have been further down. I also wouldn’t be surprised if ours we’re made by a dairy company. There was such a push to get us to drink milk at school that I remember thinking I was going to get osteoporosis as a six-year-old (my grandma had to reassure me I would be fine as long as I ate enough yoghurt and cheese)
We had those campaigns as well. It was quite alienating to me since I haven’t been able to stomach the idea of drinking milk since I was a toddler. The idea that a healthy diet has to include milk still lingers in folk wisdom, it is basically the only source of nutritional calcium that people know about.
The dairy campaign extended into the classrooms (and still do) in the form of a “school milk” scheme in which parents can pay to have a quarter of a litre of milk delivered to their kids at school every day. The scheme was originally started way back in the day to make sure poor city kids at least got some nutrition and ever since the dairy lobby has managed to protect this unique sales channel.