Dr. Donald Layman

And then if I want to get my saturated fat from two eggs in the morning, so be it.

Is that better than getting it from a

candy bar that has artificial fat in it that's saturated, I would say it's a lot better than having these hydrogenated vegetable oils.

So the number one source in the current diet is cheese, so pizzas.

I think the number two probably is meats, but 35% of the saturated fat in the American diet now is coming from hydrogenated vegetable oils, from seed oils.

And so that's all coming in in baked goods,

Number one source of calories in the American diet is baked goods, pastries, donuts, pies, cakes, things of that nature.

And then number two is breads.

And so we're getting a lot of our fat in those kinds of artificial places.

And these guidelines definitely target restricting those two groups.

And I honestly can't speak to exactly why, but the old recommendations were five servings of vegetables, it's three, and two servings of fruit, which, you know,

That's a very reasonable target.

I think five is just so high that most Americans look at it and shrug their shoulders.

I think that they're reasonable guidelines.

We know that the majority of Americans aren't eating many fruits or vegetables.

That certainly needs to be an emphasis, and it's in the guidelines.

We know that 95% of Americans are eating too many refined grains.

That's in all the surveys.

Those are two directions we need to shift.

I think they're approached mostly from a fiber standpoint, that there's a specific guideline about whole grains.