On January 7, the US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) released new guidelines on food consumption, essentially overturning the pre-existing ones recommended by the USDA.
“Every American deserves to be healthy – but too many Americans are sick and don’t know why,” a release on the guidance states. “That is because their government has been unwilling to tell them the truth. For decades, the U.S. government has recommended and incentivized low quality, highly processed foods and drug interventions instead of prevention.”
The importance of the new dietary guidelines, specifically how they can ameliorate chronic disease, is expressed in the following statement:
“According to a recent analysis by Johns Hopkins, 48% of all federal tax dollars are spent on health care – and 90% of U.S. health care spending is on people with chronic diseases. Many of these conditions are preventable, often reversible, and often tied to the food we eat,” the HHS stated.
The guidance consists of the following approaches to diet, deemed “Evangelizing Real Food.”
“Prioritizing Protein, Avoiding highly processed foods, Avoiding added sugars, Ending the War on Healthy Fats, Heralding whole grains and avoiding refined carbohydrates, Including diets lower in carbohydrates to manage chronic disease.”
One of the main takeaways from the guidelines is that a grain-heavy diet is being dismissed–not totally, but to a lesser degree of consumption–in favor of protein and saturated fats.
In light of the new guidance, TPUSA contributor and host of the Culture Apothecary Alex Clark, who is a proponent of the new pyramid, and of the MAHA movement, posted shortly after the guidelines were released, “RIP ultra processed food.”
