Erin Allman-Updike

And this is

A very America-centric couple of episodes.

But I will talk about global dietary guidelines today as well.

But today's episode, I am mostly focused on these newest dietary guidelines that came out in January 2026.

And what I want to walk through is why it is that they've made such headlines.

Like, when was the last time we ever even heard about them being updated?

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.