Jane Black

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.

And from off-the-record conversations, it seems that they just didn't want to have that kind of controversy.

And they were afraid that if they changed the limit on saturated fat, that would be the big story coming out of the guidelines.

But instead of us talking about whole foods or us talking about increasing the amount of protein we should eat, everybody would be talking about the change in saturated fats.

So they decided to just leave it, recommend what they wanted to recommend, and now we're in a bit of a muddle.

So, you know, say kiss your favorite pasta goodbye.

When you're here.

When you're here.

Before, in the Obama administration, we didn't have a pyramid.

We had something called MyPlate, and it looked like a plate, and it showed you how much of your plate was supposed to be fruits and vegetables, meat, and grains.

In that iteration, half were supposed to be whole grains.