The New Food Pyramid favors meat. And dairy. And eggs. And vegetables.
This is very exciting and an answer to prayer. Our previous food pyramid and food guidelines have been killing people for the last 40 years. Finally, finally, finally our government has turned it around. Robert Kennedy, Jr. is one of my earthly heroes. He used to be president of the Children’s Healthcare Defense Fund which worked together with the Weston A Price Foundation to promote health for American children. Now, with him as HHS secretary, there is this incredible change. Here is the YouTube post: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZxO7E2wtevg
I picked up on these statements: “Americans have gone broke because of these food policies,” said by Caroline Leavitt. I would like to add that Americans haven’t just gone broke. Millions have lived lives in terrible pain and sickness and died early deaths because of these policies. And Caroline again hoping everyone is motivated to go eat a salad. Yes, please, a salad with steak or chicken on top and bacon fat dressing.
I was happy to hear these words: “Our government has been lying to us to protect corporate profit taking, telling us these food-like substances were beneficial to public health.” They “turned a blind eye to the disastrous consequences.” “If a foreign adversary sought to destroy the health of our children, to cripple our economy, to weaken our national security, there would be no better strategy than to addict us to ultra-processed foods.” Our own government is responsible for all this illness and death. This tragedy is being owned up to at last.
Brooke Rawlins included canned vegetables as acceptable; I am not crazy about canned. They usually have additives. Fresh or frozen is better, I think. Also, whole grains are not necessarily all that great. Don’t think that wheat breads off the grocery store shelves are good for you. We will be reading about grains in the God-Given Food Bible study later on.
This new plan is not perfect. According to Nina Teicholz and Dr. Eric Berg, there is a 10% cap on saturated fat that remains in place. This is worrying because that means government institutions (schools, military, prisons, etc.) will have to continue to use seed oils, which are unhealthy. I am hoping and praying this will be corrected. Saturated fat and meat go together and God designed it this way with a purpose. Protein is better/healthier with the fat.
Dr. Eric Berg and Nina Teicholz explain the reasoning on this better than I can. Here is the article by Nina Teicholz: https://unsettledscience.substack.com/p/butter-is-not-back-the-broken-promise.
And the YouTube video by Dr. Berg: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oEl1YABvfx0.
Nina Teicholz is very disappointed about the continued 10% cap on saturated fat. I am not quite as down about it as she is. I am more optimistic like Dr. Berg, and I don’t think RFK is necessarily caving to certain powerful people (hopefully not). This can be, prayerfully, corrected soon, and I am just so happy that we are where we are right now. It’s such a big deal and I am thrilled that so many talking points on national television are about real food and how ultra processed food is so very unhealthy.
Also, Governor Ron DeSantis is making health waves in Florida: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3oBjjxxB_VY
If, like me, you enjoy listening to all this stuff about health, here is a follow-up on the news conference: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5jGCh8jXm5s. The HHS and the FDA had a “policy celebration” one day after the news conference. The filming is pretty bad; there are a lot of breaks in the feed. Paraphrasing Marty Makary from this video: “With this low protein, high carbohydrate, ultra-processed food diet, we created a generation of children (and adults, too) that have sugar addiction, obesity, diabetes, and a host of other health problems. What did we do as a medical field to care for all these children (and adults) who were and are so sick from diet related illnesses? We drugged them.” Creating more health problems. It’s hard to imagine the magnitude and how many have suffered. Just eat real food, people.
Thank you, Lord, for your grace. The truth is being made known.