Jessica Knurick

And now we have a reverse pyramid.

So the top is the biggest part and the bottom is the smallest part.

And so what they did, it's very interesting.

If you go and you read the dietary guidelines, the actual guidelines themselves aren't all that different than our previous version of the dietary guidelines, which had MyPlate as the visual.

And so they say to get a variety of proteins from plant and animal sources, they keep saturated fat to less than 10% of calories.

They say to limit added sugar.

So a lot of very similar things, but the visual representation is very different, right?

And so if you compare like MyPlate to the new pyramid,

The new pyramid really only shows animal proteins.

I mean, they have like, if you look at it, they have a couple of beans, I think, on the, it's just kind of a bunch of foods on the pyramid.

And animal proteins are very, like, very visible at the very top.

And then also vegetables at the top.

Yeah, so many of the people who worked on these dietary guidelines have conflicts of interest with the beef or dairy industry, which is interesting.

Yeah, so if you look before, this is kind of a narrative that has kind of always been present, like conflicts of interest with different industries, many different industries.

But if you look at the previous scientific committee who worked on the dietary guidelines, they actually had very few conflicts of interest.

Yeah, so usually it's the current administration.

And again, it's the USDA and HHS who kind of work on this together.

So a committee of, it's about 20 scientists are usually chosen.

Because they're government guidelines that will come out.

And so it's an independent group that's chosen.