Erin Allman-Updike

Did you know they were updated in 2020?

Yeah.

No.

Because they were.

Of course, they are every five years.

Why are we hearing so much more about this upside down pyramid than we did the debut of MyPlate back in 2011?

Right.

Right.

Right.

And I think that in some ways, the kind of nutrition community, the wider medical community has been bracing for this.

What is it going to look like?

And it's very clear that Maha and the Maha kind of ideals and ideology has had a very huge hand in shaping these guidelines.

Erin, I have so many feelings about it, and I'm not even going to get deep into it.

And I think that's one of the big, big differences that we're seeing like already off the bat is the way that these guidelines are being marketed.

The way that they're being talked about, the vibes behind them is like totally, totally different than anything that we've seen before.

Yeah.

It's a lot.

And there is a lot that I think that these guidelines kind of bring up that are part of larger discussions.

And we don't have time for those larger discussions today.

So what I am going to focus on for this episode is how the most recent guidelines, this upside-down food pyramid, if we're calling it that –