U.S. rolls out new dietary guidelines backing more protein and full-fat dairy
Source: NBC News
By Berkeley Lovelace Jr.
The Trump administration released updated U.S. dietary guidelines Wednesday, encouraging Americans to eat more protein and full-fat dairy, while cutting back on ultra-processed foods and added sugars.
The guidelines — which are updated every five years by the Agriculture and Health and Human Services departments — largely align with Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s “Make America Healthy Again” movement, but stop short of the sweeping changes some nutrition experts had expected.
Gone is the MyPlate visual guide for what foods to eat — which recommended filling your plate with roughly equal parts grains, vegetables, protein and fruit with a small portion of dairy.
Instead, an updated version of the food pyramid is back, this time inverted and slightly jumbled. Protein, dairy and healthy fats, along with vegetables and fruits dominate; whole grains are de-emphasized.
Read more: https://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-news/us-dietary-guidelines-protein-dairy-fat-rfk-jr-rcna252656
I pretty much agree with this. It's what I've been trying to do myself.
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Time to buy that new mansion on this news...$$$ 
And, no, within reason, I do not deny the importance of increased lean meat or vegetarian-sourced protein in many Americans' diets. That said, the new fad is starting now, with protein added to EVERYTHING, just as fiber was added over the last couple of years, and (supposed) pro/pre/post-biotics more recently, despite little evidence they were effective over cultured real foods. Ditto the artificially sweetened foods that are now shown to be so problematic.
Fat is more complicated and neither ultra low-fat diets, nor those packed with unlimited saturated fat are going to do anything more than ensure health problems and an early death. Monosaturated fats as present in the Mediterranean diet are conversely appropriate to emphasize.
I do agree with the attempt to reduce processed foods in the diet, so I guess there is that. Deemphasizing ACTUAL whole grains (over the crap labeled in recent years as such which was anything but) is foolish. Ditto healthy seeds and nuts in moderation. Obviously, an emphasis on fruits and vegetables is appropriate.
So, a lot of half-baked recommendations among some that are increasingly important...
