I’m speaking at the Aspen Ideas Festival, June 25-28. I don’t have details yet, but will post when I do.
I get asked all the time about what’s happening with the dietary guidelines. I have no inside information, but am exhausted at the thought that we have to go through all this again.
By law, dietary guidelines have to be re-done every five years, even though they always say the same things: eat more fruits, vegetables, and whole grains; eat less sugar, salt, and saturated fat; balance calories. OK. They take take more than 150 pages to say that, but that’s what it all boils down to.
Will they be different in the new MAHA (Make America Healthy Again) era? I can only speculate.
To review the process:
USDA Secretary Brooke Rollins says the two departments are working on them and they will come out “hopefully early fall.” If they do, this will set records. The guidelines typically are released in late December or early January.
The secretaries have promised they will not continue the tradition of “leftist ideology” I’m not sure what tradition that is, exactly, although I suspect it means “plant-based.”
I can’t wait to see what happens with:
This one will be fun to watch.