Jane Black

So now at the top, you have cheese and eggs and steak and whole milk and, yes, also fruits and vegetables.

And at the bottom, in the tiny point of the pyramid, are whole grains.

Are you seeing what I'm seeing?

There is a plastic container of ground beef.

You should eat your burgers.

That feels wrong.

So the reason you're confused is because there are a lot of conflicting messages here.

One of the reasons people really hate nutrition science is because it's always changing, right?

It's like, you can drink red wine.

No, you can't drink red wine.

And everybody just turns off.

The only thing that anyone has been consistently saying to us for nearly 50 years is don't eat too much saturated fat.

Now, the pyramid seems to be saying something completely different.

And what's really interesting is that in the recommendations, if you read into them, it says the exact same thing it's always said, which is that 10% of your diet should come from saturated fats, no more.

At the same time, they're saying, yeah, go ahead and eat your cheeseburgers.

But they're not kind of reconciling how those two things happen at the same time.

They really haven't tried to square it.

Huh.

So the backstory here is that for months there was this drumbeat that they were going to end this limit on saturated fats because they think that meat and eggs and dairy are good for us.

At the last minute, they just took that back.