Items Tagged with 'Dietary Guidelines for Americans'

The American Heart Association is urging Americans to get more of their protein from plants, while groups more typically aligned with the Make America Healthy Again agenda are calling on the Trump administration to prioritize dietary fiber over meat in school meals.

School meal directors are telling lawmakers and White House officials they’re concerned they won’t have the resources to implement new school meal guidelines that the Trump administration is developing to align with the latest Dietary Guidelines for Americans.

Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. says he ended a “war on protein" with the Trump administration's new dietary guidelines and food pyramid. For some farmers it feels like he’s started a war on wheat. The administration's new dietary recommendations cut in half the amount of grains Americans are supposed to eat.

The Trump administration’s push to eat “real food” in line with the Dietary Guidelines for Americans got a boost from a Super Bowl halftime ad featuring legendary boxer Mike Tyson.

Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins defended herself Friday from the criticism she's getting for suggesting Americans can eat a healthy meal for $3 consisting of a “piece of chicken, a piece of broccoli, corn tortilla and one other thing.”

Without more funding, public schools that serve meals to nearly 30 million kids per day likely will struggle to meet requirements in the new Dietary Guidelines for Americans that call for increased protein, severe limitations on added sugars, and a move away from ultra-processed foods, school officials and other experts say.

Here is how policymakers, and groups inside and outside the food and ag industries, responded to the guidelines. Soybean growers were alarmed by statements calling into question the potential for seed oils to harm Americans’ health. Other sectors raised concerns about the focus on highly processed foods. 

The Trump administration released its new Dietary Guidelines for Americans, emphasizing consumption of whole grains over refined grains and recommending that Americans avoid added sugars and “highly processed foods.”

President Donald Trump and House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., are projecting confidence that the Senate will meet the July 4 deadline for passing the Republicans’ budget reconciliation bill.