{"id":9591,"date":"2026-01-08T23:03:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-08T23:03:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/2026\/01\/08\/saturated-fats-controversial-role-in-new-dietary-guidelines\/"},"modified":"2026-01-08T23:03:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-08T23:03:08","slug":"saturated-fats-controversial-role-in-new-dietary-guidelines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/2026\/01\/08\/saturated-fats-controversial-role-in-new-dietary-guidelines\/","title":{"rendered":"How saturated fats lost, and won, on new food pyramid"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>    How saturated fats lost, and won, on new food pyramid<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>For months, nutrition experts have been anxiously waiting to see whether the new U.S. dietary guidelines would follow through on health secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.\u2019s pledge to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2025\/11\/12\/is-saturated-fat-bad-new-dietary-guidelines-maha-vs-science\/\">end the war on saturated fat<\/a>. The guidelines\u2019 longstanding recommendation to cap saturated fat consumption at 10% of daily calories in order to reduce the risk of heart disease seemed likely to get the axe.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>But when the much-ballyhooed new guidelines <a href=\"https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2026\/01\/07\/dietary-guidelines-revised-more-protein-less-sugar-highly-processed-foods\/\">finally dropped<\/a> on Wednesday, their stance on saturated fat was decidedly muddled.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2026\/01\/08\/saturated-fats-controversial-role-in-new-dietary-guidelines\/?utm_campaign=rss\">Read the rest\u2026<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> \t<BR><br \/>\n <BR><\/BR><br \/>\n    Sarah Todd, Elizabeth Cooney, and Isabella Cueto<br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2026\/01\/08\/saturated-fats-controversial-role-in-new-dietary-guidelines\/?utm_campaign=rss\">Go to statnews<\/a><br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n <BR><\/BR><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How saturated fats lost, and won, on new food pyramid For months, nutrition experts have been anxiously waiting to see whether the new U.S. dietary guidelines would follow through on health secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.\u2019s pledge to end the war on saturated fat. The guidelines\u2019 longstanding recommendation to cap saturated fat consumption at 10% [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2486,4452,1428,2332,2282,2144,2180,2149],"tags":[2150],"class_list":["post-9591","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cardiovascular-disease","category-chronic-diseases","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\/9591"}],"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=9591"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9591\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9591"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9591"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9591"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}