Decoding the New U.S. Dietary Guidelines with Simon Hill: What They Got Right, Wrong & Why It Matters

The Trump administration making over America's food pyramid. For decades of federal policy promoted and subsidized highly processed foods, these new guidelines will make America healthy. Many in the health community worry about the increase in protein. They have caused quite a bit of discourse. What's good about them, what's maybe not so good about them, the

Problem is that most people will double down on red meat based on what those new guidelines look like. Makes it very hard to actually consume less than 10% of calories from saturated fat. It does feel like mixed messaging, and this is what's making us sick. I would have liked to have seen more commentary around the fact that 95% of Americans get nowhere near the fiber recommendations. This is when that idea of animal protein being better quality, you have to really question it.

I've gone through this evidence with you in previous episodes, so we we don't have to go through all of it, but what I'll say is that Hey everybody, welcome to the podcast. We have our resident nutrition science expert, Simon Hill, host of the Proof podcast. And my intention for this episode of the podcast is to have a very focused discussion, the first and what I hope will turn into a kind of regular feature of this show in which we take an aspect of nutrition and kind of dive into it deeply. But just to get right into it. What's different about these new guidelines that sets it apart from the previous guidelines?

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