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"Welcome to the Dietary Guidelines for Americans, 2025–2030."The message is simple: eat real food.... American households must prioritize diets built on whole, nutrient-dense foods—protein, dairy, vegetables, fruits, healthy fats, and whole grains.... For decades, federal incentives have promoted low-quality, highly processed foods and pharmaceutical intervention instead of prevention.... Under President Trump’s leadership, we are restoring common sense, scientific integrity, and accountability to federal food and health policy—and we are reclaiming the food pyramid and returning it to its true purpose of educating and nourishing all...
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all the good stuff is at the top…
Right, again.
Looks a lot like we eat, since I discovered carbs and I don't get along.
…mercifully beans and rice down there with the bread, canned tuna lost in the middle somewhere…
Not exactly a wild rebrand, but a pleasant start. Ideally the FDA and HHS would do more to help people who need it with dietary suggestions. There is no substitute for personal motivation, but we are in an era where digital guidance really helps.
Where's the Häagen-Dazs icon?
Would a bacon-wrapped multivitamin be a "nutrient dense" meal?
I could probably follow this--if broccoli wasn't in the top row.
Not news to a lot of us. That the US government lied for so many years is criminal.
I notice that a lot of Americans that followed the old food pyramid seemed to turn out looking a lot like it, too. So I'm glad to see he's switched up the geometry to something that seems more fit. Good changes here.
The food pyramid was crazy when I was a kid. The damn government wanted us all eating bread, all the time, as much as possible. More bread, please!
And lots of no-calorie soft drinks!
I'm not saying Jeopardy needs a new category. But The Government Is Wrong would be a fun one.
"It's right to abort your child." (1973)
Several decades later...
"Oops." (2022)
"Africans are not people." (1857)
one decade later
"Oops." (1868)
From pointy head to pointy ass.
Flip the script, baby!
Just came back from the grocery store. My feeling is that it's too late for many. America is so fat, so out of shape. But it's crucial for the kids, the young people. I can change their lives and allow them to live healthy, useful, productive lives well into their 80s. Right, Ann?
I haven't thought about the food pyramid (or its predecessors) since grade school.
I also haven't thought about the metric system since grade school.
The drink minimums are gone. Although, genZers are said to be hardly drinking at all.
It's the food pizza slice!
Looks like a great improvement. It is SAD that many on the left will do the opposite because it happened under Trump. I already follow the new guideline. Eating real food works.
PETA ain't going to like that one bit.
Dr. Atkins dead, but smiling.
Koot: "It is SAD that many on the left will do the opposite because it happened under Trump."
Maybe that's part of the plan....CC, JSM
The most important thing is don't eat processed foods and stay away from crap like Cheetos, Big Macs, Ice cream, and smoked meats.
You go into the store and its just aisle after aisle of frozen this, and bags of that. Even the deli food looks terrible. And that's at Whole Foods, which has really lost its rep as "Healthy" in the last 4 years.
In twenty years it'll flip again, or change in some other unpredictable way, because science.
That stuff at the top seems like a shot at H.W..
Remember ironrailsironweights? The new pyramid would have reminded him of his "dietary guidelines," iykwimaityd....CC, JSM
So much I could say, after half a century as an "organic" produce farmer, who dropped Whole Foods as a customer *before* the Amazon takeover.
a) Americans do not "eat healthy". Only 20 percent eat more than a single 100 gram "serving" of fruit and veggies -- and that includes potatoes. 100 g is not much, and 500 g is "recommended".
b) Americans (and most others) have NEVER eaten "healthy". I've studied food and diets going back several thousand years ... mostly grain, pulses, and meat (or fish). Everything else was an "accent", largely because pre-refrigeration they were highly seasonal and very difficult to store for any length of time.
c) The critical issues today are #1 Convenience and #2 Expense. Most people, truly most, have neither the time nor the money to eat any form of "healthy" which requires home preparation of fresh produce or protein.
In my professional opinion, the greatest single problem with American nutrition and health is modern corn, which is heavily subsidized by the government. It's bad for the land, and has few nutrients. It's terrible garbage feed for livestock, but that's where 40%, producing truly crap meat. Another 20% is turned into crap industrial ingredients for highly-processed food-type products, full of Calories and largely devoid of nutrients.
Oh, and that remaining 40%? Mandatory ethanol for cars. 130,000 btu to produce a gallon of ethanol which provides only 75,000 btu from each gallon of motor fuel.
We won't solve the "healthy food" issue until we eliminate subsidies for corn, and THAT won't happen until Iowa loses its influence in political primaries. Good luck with that.
Bananas: The Silent Killer
Didn't 'South Park' do an episode about flipping the 'food pyramid'?
What are those cans doing there? They are not even spaghetti meatballs.
I was happy to hear them say how healthy fruits and vegetable are whether they are fresh, frozen, or canned. Too much emphasis has been put on farmer’s markets and farm to table, and a lot of Americans just can’t purchase and prepare food like that. You don’t have to be a bougie foodie to eat more healthy food.
Guess I’m officially an old fogey now, as the words that come to mind are: I never thought I would live to see the day.
Bart Hall - high quality commentary. Thanks!
I don't even give a damn about my health, but I just realized that the ONLY prepared/ processed food I ever eat (and rarely) are frozen spinach ravioli. Everything else starts in my kitchen as basic ingredients.
The biggest impact of the change to the dietary guidelines is that many government institutions, federal, state and local, are often mandated to follow them. So this will change prison, hospital, school, etc. menus.
Cue the "experts" to denounce the Bad Orange Man even when they agree with much of this.
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