Dr. Donald Layman

Now, these are basically, restrict your carbohydrates to what you need to eat.

meaning the 130 grams.

Again, it doesn't mention that, but that's if you look at the serving numbers and things, that's kind of what is revolving around.

RDA for carbohydrates?

Well, that was kind of an interesting part of the politics of this process because within government, there's a lot of turf protection.

And so the dietary guidelines are the consumer-facing food part of the government.

recommendations.

The ingredients, what's in food is the FDA's jurisdiction.

So there's no discussion really about dyes or things in the food guide per se.

And the numbers, 130 grams is the jurisdiction of the dietary reference intakes, which is the National Academy of Science, the Food and Nutrition Board.

And so there are each of these

turf areas that have to be protected.

And so when we waded into looking at numbers for the protein, we got a lot of pushback from the DRI folks that we couldn't talk about numbers.

And so we said, well,

Every time we talk about protein, one of the first questions we always see is, well, how much should I have?

So we thought that was a very important consumer-facing piece of information.

What's the range you're talking about?

People say, well, people have too high a protein.

We think that's a very safe and normal range that we gave.

Well, there's a lot of politically correct things to say there and things that are less politically correct.