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On Wednesday, Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. — who has long peddled disinformation on vaccines and autism — announced new national dietary guidelines that are being criticized by many dieticians and experts on obesity.

The new guidelines, available to view at realfood.gov, emphasize red meats, dairy, healthy fats, and vegetables over grains and processed foods.

The guidelines are presented as an upside-down pyramid, mimicking the classic food pyramid that federal health agencies promoted in the 1990s. HHS officials praised the changes as the “most significant reset of federal nutrition policy in history.”

White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt similarly heralded the changes, claiming they would positively impact children, members of the military and veterans, and recipients of the Women, Infants, and Children (WIC) food program. She also claimed, without evidence, that Americans........

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