Erin Allman-Updike

All of these things were considered in the Dietary Guidelines Advisory Committee's guidelines.

Actual guidelines, recommendations.

And this report has an entire paragraph saying, how dare you take that into consideration?

That's not what we're doing here.

I mean, so points for that kind of transparency.

Right.

And honestly, I think that one of the big things that these guidelines do is show the same exact trend that we've seen in pretty much everything that Maha touches, whether it's raw milk, whether it's food dyes, whether it's anything, which is a real rejection of any sort of scientific expertise and a remaking of facts to fit a specific agenda, being explicit about it.

But then also a packaging and like a branding of these very real health issues that are indeed facing Americans as something that we could fix individually by just eating more broccoli and steak.

Right.

Like we have huge issues in our health system.

And as we have talked about and will continue to talk about, many of us struggle to meet these dietary guidelines.

And people around the globe live with chronic diseases that poor nutrition has contributed to.

But it will take structural changes to actually improve.

And none of that has happened thus far.

Now, if we take a step back and look globally, pretty much every single country has some version of dietary guidelines.

Many of them do use a little pyramid shape, which is so interesting.

Why has that become the thing?

And there's, of course, a lot of regional variation in like what countries are using as like their food examples or like are they calling things grains or starches or what have you.

But across the board, there's a lot of very common themes that come out, and that are things like an emphasis on fish in many guidelines, an emphasis on lean meats and limiting or moderating meat consumption.

That's in most other guidelines.