The New Food Pyramid Is Exactly What We’ve Needed for Years |
As a health, fitness, and nutrition expert for many years, I always said that the one thing the government could do to better support American health would be to flip the food pyramid upside down. Yesterday, my (and South Park’s) vision for guidelines to healthier eating came true.
After much anticipation within the MAHA movement, HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., along with USDA Secretary Brooke Rollins, released the new food guidelines that essentially flipped the older iconic food pyramid—prioritizing bread, cereal, rice and pasta and deemphasizing protein and healthy fats found in animal products and natural, healthy oils—on its head.
Hopefully, this will help reverse years of unfounded, biased science that claimed a lower fat, high carbohydrate diet was key for weight management and good health. Nothing in our current trends suggests that is true.
Ever since the original food pyramid was released in 1992, American health has experienced a rapid decline.
Many have seen the numbers, but they are worth repeating. Obesity rates have risen from around 12% – 15% (with no state exceeding 20% according to the CDC) in........