Overview
- The 2025–2030 guidance, unveiled January 7 by Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., urges Americans to “eat real food” and raises protein targets to 1.2–1.6 grams per kilogram of body weight.
- It explicitly prioritizes protein-rich foods such as eggs, poultry, seafood and red meat, while cutting back the role of whole grains to two to four servings daily and urging sharp reductions in refined, highly processed foods.
- The document endorses three daily servings of full‑fat dairy and lists butter and beef tallow among options for “healthy fats,” a stance nutrition advisors call scientifically contested.
- Marion Nestle and the American Heart Association warn that higher intakes of red meat and saturated fats conflict with evidence on heart disease and certain cancers.
- Recent coverage reports the advisory process was reshaped by the administration, with BILD citing the New York Times in saying previous expert recommendations were set aside in favor of handpicked advisers and a simplified, 10‑page framework.