The Guardian reports that guidelines rolled out by Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. push Americans toward a meat- and dairy-heavy diet that would nearly double current protein intake, featuring an "inverted" food pyramid loaded with steak, ground beef, poultry, and whole milk. The World Resources Institute estimates that even a 25% protein bump from animal sources could require roughly 100 million more acres of US farmland a year—about the size of California—and add hundreds of millions of tons of greenhouse gases. Public health experts and nutritionists tell the Hill, however, that they're also leery of the new food pyramid's apparent dismissal of worries over saturated fats, as well as the Trump administration's removal of pointed limits on daily alcohol use from nutritional guidelines, replacing those with the much more vague "consume less alcohol for better health" directive, per the Hill.
Author: Jenn Gidman with Newser.AI
Published at: 2026-01-25 22:00:00
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