Overview
- The new framework elevates protein at every meal and places red meat and whole milk prominently in a reversed pyramid, alongside a target of two fruit and three vegetable servings daily.
- Guidance takes a hard line on added sugars and ultra-processed foods, urging no sugary drinks and delaying any added sugars for children until age 10.
- Alcohol advice is softened to a general call to drink less, dropping prior numeric limits and the 2020 explicit cancer-risk warning.
- The document encourages cooking with butter and beef tallow and highlights whole-fat dairy, while offering no endorsement of commonly used seed oils.
- Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. replaced the prior expert panel with a handpicked group; reporting notes five of ten advisors disclosed industry ties, the AMA welcomed the guidelines, the AHA urged caution on saturated fat and salt, and the standards will guide federal food programs nationwide.