On January 7, 2026, at a White House press briefing, RFK Jr. called the changes to the government-recommended nutritional guidelines the “most significant reset of federal nutrition policy in history.”
The guidelines, effective through 2030, will become the default for what’s served to schoolchildren, the military, veterans, the elderly and low-income families that participate in federal programs like WIC and Head Start.
| Food pyramid image credit: realfood.gov (USDA/HHS). |
RFK said:
“These guidelines replace corporate-driven assumptions with common sense goals and gold-standard scientific integrity. These new guidelines will revolutionize our nation’s food culture and make America healthy again. For decades, Americans have grown sicker while healthcare costs have soared. The reason is clear: the hard truth is that our government has been lying to us to protect corporate profit-taking, telling us that these food-like substances were beneficial to public health. Federal policy promoted and subsidized highly processed foods and refined carbohydrates and turned a blind eye to the disastrous consequences. Today, the lies stop.”
https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/rfk-jr-new-food-pyramid-us-dietary-guidelines/
This makes me SO happy!! These little victories are what keep me going in a day when it seems that actually beneficial government policies are few & far between!
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