{"id":9563,"date":"2026-01-07T23:02:21","date_gmt":"2026-01-07T23:02:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/2026\/01\/07\/dietary-guidelines-revised-more-protein-less-sugar-highly-processed-foods\/"},"modified":"2026-01-07T23:02:21","modified_gmt":"2026-01-07T23:02:21","slug":"dietary-guidelines-revised-more-protein-less-sugar-highly-processed-foods","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/2026\/01\/07\/dietary-guidelines-revised-more-protein-less-sugar-highly-processed-foods\/","title":{"rendered":"Dietary guidelines declare war on processed foods and sugar, encourage more protein and dairy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>    Dietary guidelines declare war on processed foods and sugar, encourage more protein and dairy<br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><br \/>\n    <!-- no image --><br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>The Trump administration on Wednesday issued a long-promised revamp of national dietary guidelines, urging Americans to eat more protein and less added sugar and, for the first time, discouraging consumption of highly processed foods.<\/p>\n<p>The guidelines, despite widespread expectations, do not change limits on saturated fats but do encourage eating \u201chealthy fat,\u201d which they say includes beef tallow and butter as well as olive oil.\u00a0\u00a0They also include a <a href=\"https:\/\/realfood.gov\/\">new, inverted food pyramid<\/a>, emphasizing the consumption of fruits and vegetables along with protein, dairy, and \u201chealthy fats,\u201d to replace the MyPlate chart that had previously provided visual guidance for American diets.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2026\/01\/07\/dietary-guidelines-revised-more-protein-less-sugar-highly-processed-foods\/?utm_campaign=rss\">Read the rest\u2026<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> \t<BR><br \/>\n <BR><\/BR><br \/>\n    Elizabeth Cooney, Isabella Cueto, and Sarah Todd<br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2026\/01\/07\/dietary-guidelines-revised-more-protein-less-sugar-highly-processed-foods\/?utm_campaign=rss\">Go to statnews<\/a><br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n <BR><\/BR><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dietary guidelines declare war on processed foods and sugar, encourage more protein and dairy The Trump administration on Wednesday issued a long-promised revamp of national dietary guidelines, urging Americans to eat more protein and less added sugar and, for the first time, discouraging consumption of highly processed foods. The guidelines, despite widespread expectations, do not [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2216,2486,2362,1428,2332,2282,2144,2180,2149],"tags":[2150],"class_list":["post-9563","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-breaking-news","category-cardiovascular-disease","category-chronic-disease","category-health","category-nutrition","category-obesity","category-politics","category-public-health","category-rfk-jr","tag-statnews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9563"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9563"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9563\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9563"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9563"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9563"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}