Erin Allman-Updike

Okay, yeah, listen.

So this version of the dietary guidelines really puts protein on a huge pedestal, and it does so in two ways that are different from prior guidelines and not based in nutrition research or data.

Okay.

So first, these guidelines emphasize over and over again, both visually and in the text itself, a specific and explicit recommendation to consume your protein primarily from animal sources.

Right.

I can picture the steak in that.

The steak.

In that pyramid.

Yeah.

It's huge.

They have a huge whole steak, an entire turkey, a package of ground beef, a chunk of raw salmon, and a carton of whole milk, all to represent your protein sources.

Okay?

They also in the text emphasize eggs, poultry, seafood and red meat.

And then later, later down the line, say like you can get it from vegetable sources, too.

But don't you dare be vegetarian or vegan or you'll definitely end up deficient.

There's like a whole section on that.

Great.

The nutrition data that we have.

rife with biases and things and limited as all nutrition data is, all of the nutrition data that we do have point to plant sources of protein being associated with lower disease risks, lower mortality, better cardiovascular outcomes than animal proteins.

Yes.