Dr. Mark Hyman

Hey, everybody.

I know you all heard that Dietary Guidelines came out, or maybe you didn't, because it's my world.

I definitely knew about it.

I want to give you my take on it because there's a lot of buzz.

There's a lot of pushback.

There's a lot of arguments.

And, of course, the industry is furious about this because it puts them in the crosshairs by saying highly processed food

is not something you should eat, period.

That's amazing.

That's unbelievably revolutionary, and it's something never I thought I would see in my lifetime, never.

So let's get into it and talk about what the government finally got right about food and some things that I would still want to tweak.

Now, for more than 40 years, the U.S.

dietary guidelines shaped what we're told to eat by the government, and during that same time,

The rates of obesity, diabetes, and chronic disease have skyrocketed.

So when the new dietary guidelines are released, it matters a lot because it shapes all of our food programs, and it also shapes other countries' food policies, and it also determines so much of what people are doing and the message about what we should be eating and what we shouldn't be eating.

So for the first time in my medical lifetime, the government is starting to acknowledge some really hard truths.

Highly processed foods are harming us.

Food quality matters more than calorie counting.

Oh my God, all calories are not the same.

I never thought I would see that because it was all about calories in, calories out.