Erin Allman-Updike

And that's like, if there is a change that could potentially be for the better, that might be it.

So moving on.

Now, dairy has been, I think, contentious in guidelines for years.

And for good reason.

Yeah.

Because honestly, the bottom line is that none of us over the age of 12 months need any form of dairy to survive as a species.

75% of

the global population is lactose intolerant as adults and cannot consume dairy, period.

Dairy is a good source of calcium.

It has quite a lot of calcium in it, and 46% of Americans don't get enough calcium.

Dairy in this country has to be fortified with vitamin D, and many of us don't get enough vitamin D. And then dairy contains protein, and it is high in saturated fat if you are drinking whole fat dairy.

But for a long time, the guidelines not only emphasized, like, the need for dairy.

Dairy was its whole own food group, okay, which it still is.

It is a front page recommendation on these guidelines.

Of course it is.

Before whole grains, before anything.

But every other guideline in the past –

has emphasized the need to consume low-fat dairy.

They have recommended specifically low-fat dairy items.

And that is because of the data surrounding saturated fat intake.