The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) rolled out a new set of dietary guidelines on Wednesday, Jan. 7, introducing a food pyramid that looks strikingly different from what most people remember.

Eat Real Food. That's the focus of Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s new dietary guidelines for 2026, which strips processed foods and adds more protein, whole milk, and red ...

For 46 years, the government has been trying to give us advice on how to eat better. In 1980, the Dietary Guidelines for Americans were introduced, after lawmakers took notice of how some modern ...

This story is sponsored by HLTH Code. For decades, Americans were told they were following "healthy" nutrition guidance, yet obesity, type 2 diabetes, and metabolic disease kept rising. Recently, the ...

Old vs New: Robert F. Kennedy Jr’s new red meat- and dairy-heavy food pyramid (right) versus an earlier iteration of the US Department of Agriculture’s food pyramid. Images courtesy of USDA. On ...

The newly updated food pyramid is unlikely to trigger an overnight transformation in how Americans eat. But over time, it could influence consumer behavior in ways that ripple far beyond the dinner ...

Even in a best-case scenario, the official federal food pyramid is little more than a lagging indicator of conventional wisdom on nutrition that is easily available from dozens—hundreds!—of other ...