The new guidance emphasizes protein at every meal and encourages people to eat as much as twice the recommended daily allowance of 0.8 grams of protein per kilogram of body weight, instead recommending 1.2 to 1.6 grams per kilogram of body weight. Proteins can be flavored with “salt, spices, and herbs” if preferred, it added.
The guidelines also tout full-fat dairy, a departure from earlier versions that recommended low-fat or fat-free versions to limit saturated fat intake. Kennedy has called the previous guidelines “antiquated” because of those recommendations.
Guidance on saturated fat has not changed. The latest recommendations still cap intake at less than 10% of total daily calories.
The literature supports that we can use up to 2.2g per kilo of lean body mass. Considering how fat the average American is, 1.2 to 1.6 seems pretty reasonable, especially because not everyone works out.
Big change US dietary guidelines now push higher protein and full fat dairy, moving away from old lowvfat rules, which could reshape how people eat and plan meals.
The saturated fat cap is silly and probably somewhat hard to hit if you eat what’s in the picture.
Not if you just put butter on all of your fruit.
Really? Is butter that low in saturated fat or are you someone who only lightly butters his fruit?
Oh... I thought you were trying to get MORE saturated fat... it was just a suggestion, my bad.
The literature supports that we can use up to 2.2g per kilo of lean body mass. Considering how fat the average American is, 1.2 to 1.6 seems pretty reasonable, especially because not everyone works out.
Stay hydrated.
This is key 💧
I suddenly got this vision of Americans zipping around town in motorized fat people movers like the movie WALL-E ....
Big change US dietary guidelines now push higher protein and full fat dairy, moving away from old lowvfat rules, which could reshape how people eat and plan meals.
Peas are super high glycemic index tho... so, I guess the USDA is still full of shit.
MAHA in action