The New Dietary Guidelines Take a New Tone

The New Dietary Guidelines Take a New Tone

Dietary guidelines are never just scientific documents; they are also political and rhetorical ones. The new “Final Dietary Guidelines” read less like a neutral public health manual and more like an urgent manifesto about a food system gone off the rails. In this framing, “whole” becomes synonymous with trustworthy, while “processed” signals suspicion. That tonal shift—arguably as significant as any specific nutrient target—sets the stage for ho…

What a Spring Chicken Knows That the New 2025–2030 Dietary Guidelines

I have spent most of my adult life working at the intersection of food, health, and public policy. I did not come to this work through ideology. I came to it through lived experience, long before I ever held a policy title.My mother reversed severe, debilitating Crohn’s disease decades ago after being advised to undergo radical intestinal surgery. Doctors told her there were no other options. She refused to accept that verdict and changed what s…