Dietary Guidelines for Americans, 2025–2030 (Conclusion)

The new version of the Dietary Guidelines for Americans, 2025-2030 offers a significant change from previous versions.  The core of the new guidelines is to go back to "real food", not "processed and packaged" food.  It encourages a commonsense focus on healthy eating rather than a set of "limits" or "maximums."  In this short series of articles, each week will will look at an overview of one of the recommendations.  This is an introduction to these guidelines, you will find the full version of the guidelines online at: https://realfood.gov/#resources.  These articles are sourced from an Epoch Times article: The Science Behind the New Dietary Guidelines. 

Conclusions

Many wonder what these Dietary Guidelines are good for. I like to think of dietary guidelines and nutrition as "fertilizer" and "feed".  In cattle country many are knowledgeable about the nutritional needs of their livestock.  In the agriculture field many are knowledgeable about what minerals, nutrients, and other additives are necessary to make a healthy crop grow.

The average person in the world today is not as knowledgeable about what the needs of their growing and living body are.  Most, it seems, are born and then go through life just relying upon chance to meet their body's nutritional needs.

The Dietary Guidelines for Americans, 2025-2030 offers a starting point where you can work to improve your diet as you work to improve you knowledge about diet. The four basic foundational components of this Guideline are:

• Lessen your reliance upon processed foods and instead turn to more "real food" that you prepare yourself from whole plant and animal sources.

• Increase your usage of protein rather than carbohydrates.  Especially increase use of animal protein.  It doesn't have to be you exclusive source of protein, but do include it as you would include a nutritional supplement.

• Animal fats are "ok" and you can increase you usage of them.  

• Oils and fats such as olive oil, butter or beef tallow should find an increased usage in cooking and seed oils are just "ok".

Hopefully these brief reviews of the new guidelines have been informative and helpful.  Do your own research and reach your own conclusions.

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