"Typically, they follow many of the recommendations of a scientific advisory committee that spends about two years reviewing the evidence and compiling a dense scientific report. The advice in the 2025 scientific report hasn't changed much from previous years. It emphasizes consuming fruits and vegetables, lean meat, legumes and whole grains, and avoiding too much saturated fat, added sugar and refined carbs."
"But Kennedy has strong views about food and has made no secret of his disdain for the existing guidelines. In public appearances, he has disparaged the process for developing them and seems to conflate the 2025 scientific report with the actual guidelines, calling the document "incomprehensible" and "Biden guidelines." And Kennedy has pledged the upcoming ones will be a mere four to six pages, with a focus on "whole foods, healthy foods and local foods.""
The U.S. Departments of Health and Human Services and Agriculture update dietary guidelines every five years, generally following a scientific advisory committee's report. The 2025 scientific report largely reaffirms prior advice: emphasize fruits, vegetables, lean meats, legumes and whole grains, and limit saturated fat, added sugar and refined carbohydrates. Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has criticized the current development process, equated the scientific report with the guidelines, and pledged a four-to-six-page set focused on whole, healthy, local foods. Such a condensed shift could disrupt policy uses of the guidelines that shape federal food aid, school meals and institutional feeding.
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