Posts Tagged ‘2025 Dietary Guidelines for Americans’

What unintended consequences might result from the new, upside-down food pyramid that our quixotic health secretary is touring the country to promote? One ironic twist will almost surely be a proliferation of ultra-processed protein foods. Yes, the guidelines advise to “eat real food.” But they also tell us to “prioritize protein foods at every meal.” […]

It’s right up front in the new Dietary Guidelines for Americans. “Prioritize protein foods at every meal.” So the food industry stands ready to help. Companies can plainly see the opportunity to make some quick money by selling “a good source of protein.” This is where the winds of commerce are blowing and everyone – […]

By almost every measure we should care about – longevity, healthspan, and quality of life – preventing colon cancer matters. Yet the recently released 2025 Dietary Guidelines for Americans largely ignore dietary patterns that scientific evidence has long suggested are protective. A new study in AJCN strengthens our understanding of this mistake. The Consortium of […]

It’s a perfect straw man argument. To make the case that dietary guidelines with the personal stamp of RFK Jr. are revolutionary, HHS has resurrected the long-defunct food pyramid and turned it upside down. It perfectly satisfies the impulse to tell the nutrition establishment that they’re wrong about everything. But folks who know a thing […]

People who know a thing or two about nutrition continue to puzzle over the strange dish of commerce and politics served up in the new Dietary Guidelines for Americans. In a new editorial for the BMJ, Marion Nestle, one of the most influential authorities in the world on food policy, is blunt. Political and commercial […]

Should it be a surprise to learn that a testosterone agenda is part of the scientific foundation for the new Dietary Guidelines for Americans? You can find it in “The Scientific Foundation for the Dietary Guidelines for Americans.” HHS released that document alongside the guideline document itself. Stat News reports: “For the first time, the […]

Health secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. yesterday announced muddled new Dietary Guidelines for Americans in which everyone can find plenty to love or hate – or both. These are the perfect guidelines for our era. TikTok nutrition influencers can spin them any way they want. RFK can tell everyone that he’s owning the so-called nutrition […]

We are hearing much sound and fury about making America healthy and the noise is largely about improving the quality of the U.S. food supply. It would indeed be nice if MAHA brought us a better food supply. But in a thoughtful piece for The Atlantic, Yasmin Tayag says a more likely outcome may be […]

Within a month, we expect that U.S. Dietary Guidelines will come out of the MAHA machine, looking like nothing that came before. Speculation is rife and the expectations are low that this new incarnation will be tethered to nutrition research. Writing in The Atlantic about HHS Secretary Robert Kennedy Jr. and the imminent issuance of […]