Erin Allman-Updike

And the Dietary Guidelines said, absolutely not.

We will not be doing that.

Right.

Exactly.

A hundred percent.

But if our personal choices are that we're not eating according to these guidelines anyways, then what – like you asked last week, what impact are these changes really going to have?

And I think that one of the things that's important is that because these dietary guidelines are guiding policy for school lunch programs, for military nutrition programs, for what is covered by WIC or the Women, Infants, and Children, which serves over 47 million people –

These changes specifically to increase things like full-fat dairy, to increase protein recommendations, to avoid processed foods, these could result in pretty substantial changes being integrated into what foods are available in schools.

Now, my kid goes to a public school and gets breakfast and lunch at public school, which is wonderful.

Thank you, state of California.

But the food choices that he gets are often quite bad.

Like, he eats graham crackers for breakfast because those count as whole grains.

I'm not even joking.

He gets Cinnamon Toast Crunch whole grain, low sugar Cinnamon Toast Crunch quite often.

He brings home the little packets sometimes.

5% reduced sugar now.

Yes.

Yes.

And do you know what?

They don't taste as good.