Erin Allman-Updike

The impact of dietary guidelines on climate change.

Okay.

There's really wide ranges in emissions estimates of various specific countries' recommended diets.

And if the entire world was eating an old U.S.

diet, not even the newest recommendations, it would substantially increase global greenhouse gas emissions significantly.

And now with an emphasis on dairy and an even stronger – we always had an emphasis on dairy – but a stronger emphasis on dairy and a stronger emphasis on animal protein at the expense of plant protein, that is also going to result, if it is incorporated in more greenhouse gas emissions –

worsening of climate change there was also changes with like alcohol and making it much more ambiguous what the recommendations are and not explicitly saying you should not be drinking alcohol period yeah which is what the old guidelines actually said they were like no one should be drinking alcohol if you are going to it should be no more than one to two a day depending on who you are and now the new ones are just like limit your alcohol consumption which like what does that mean now i swear i'm actually done erin yeah

100%.

Yeah.

Well, of course, you can read all of these guidelines for yourself.

I've got links to the report that came out in 2024 and then the scientific foundation that they wrote, the new scientific committee that RFK made wrote, as well as the several page dietary guidelines document.

It's all there.

I also have some data like going back on previous dietary guidelines so that you can kind of see the evolution.

And then a bunch of papers about the global.

There was a couple of really great ones.

One from 2019 that was called a global review of food based dietary guidelines from advances in nutrition.

And then another one from 2021 that was a comparison of dietary guidelines among 96 countries worldwide.

I've got that climate change paper.

It was from 2018.

So it's a little bit old now.