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RFK Jr. Flips the Food Pyramid
This is long overdue. I wonder if RFK JR. didn’t do this if it would have ever gotten done with all the big food lobbyists.
I’m amazed with which the speed, him and his organization, are cleaning up the health in our nation.
U.S. Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. today unveiled new dietary guidelines for Americans. The new U.S. food pyramid puts protein, dairy, healthy fats, vegetables and fruit at the top, with grains at the bottom.
January 7, 2026
U.S. Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. today unveiled new dietary guidelines for Americans. The new food pyramid is inverted, putting protein, dairy, healthy fats, vegetables and fruit at the top, with grains at the bottom.
At a White House press briefing today, Kennedy called the changes the “most significant reset of federal nutrition policy in history.”
The guidelines, effective through 2030, will become the default for what’s served to schoolchildren, the military, veterans, the elderly and low-income families that participate in federal programs like WIC and Head Start.
Kennedy said:
“These guidelines replace corporate-driven assumptions with common sense goals and gold-standard scientific integrity. These new guidelines will revolutionize our nation’s food culture and make America healthy again.
“For decades, Americans have grown sicker while healthcare costs have soared. The reason is clear: the hard truth is that our government has been lying to us to protect corporate profit-taking, telling us that these food-like substances were beneficial to public health.
“Federal policy promoted and subsidized highly processed foods and refined carbohydrates and turned a blind eye to the disastrous consequences. Today, the lies stop.”
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Food pyramid was upside down before — ‘we just righted it’
Kennedy said people may think the new pyramid is upside down, given that the prior pyramid allotted the largest area to grains and the smallest area to fats.
“But it was actually upside down before — we just righted it,” Kennedy said.
The earlier nutrition model “wrongly discouraged” healthy fats and protein. “We are ending the war on saturated fats,” Kennedy said.
Last year’s U.S. Dietary Guidelines limited saturated fats and recommended that people replace them with vegetable (seed) oils, according to Nina Teicholz, Ph.D., science journalist and author of “The Big Fat Surprise: Why Butter, Meat & Cheese Belong in a Healthy Diet.”
Unfortunately, the new guidelines contain the same 10% calories cap for saturated fats, Teicholz wrote in a Substack post Tuesday, despite Kennedy’s enthusiasm for ending the war on saturated fats.
The new guidelines website states that every American should eat 1.2-1.6 grams of animal and/or plant protein per kilogram of body weight per day, along with “healthy fats” from whole foods such as eggs, seafood, meat, full-fat dairy, nuts, seeds, olives and avocados.
Although the website includes graphics encouraging people to eat butter, the actual guidelines state:
“In general, saturated fat consumption should not exceed 10% of total daily calories. Significantly limiting highly processed foods will help meet this goal. More high-quality research is needed to determine which types of dietary fats best support long-term health.”
People should also eat 3 servings of vegetables, 2 servings of fruit, and 2-4 servings of whole grains.
The guidelines also encourage people to drink water, limit alcohol consumption and eat the amount of food appropriate for their age, sex, size and activity level.
New guidelines ‘directly address’ ultraprocessed foods, added sugars
The pyramid doesn’t include added sugars. People, especially children, are encouraged to avoid them entirely. Instead, they should eat naturally occurring sugars in whole fruits and plain dairy.
“For the first time, the dietary guidelines directly address ultraprocessed foods and set firm sugar limits in federal procurement, driving a significant reduction in added sugar in school meals,” Kennedy said.
The new guidelines emphasize eating “real” food, defined as minimally processed foods “prepared with few ingredients and without added sugars, industrial oils, artificial flavors, or preservatives.”
U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Commissioner Marty Makary, who also spoke at today’s press conference, cited a study published last October in JAMA that showed that Americans, including kids, were getting over half their calories from ultraprocessed foods.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention last August reported roughly the same numbers.
“We now have a generation of kids addicted to refined carbohydrates, low in protein,” Makary said.
Kennedy flagged this as a serious problem. He said:
“If a foreign adversary sought to destroy the health of our children, to cripple our economy, to weaken our national security, there would be no better strategy than to addict us to ultraprocessed foods.
“It’s shocking that our own government helped to drive these cataclysmic changes in our diet. The damage is real.”
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SNAP offerings in stores will soon expand
Over 40 million Americans depend on SNAP, the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, for nutrition, according to a fact sheet about the new guidelines.
Some of the most popular SNAP items are sugary drinks, candy and chips. And because 78% of SNAP recipients are on Medicaid, these incentives for unhealthy food drive up taxpayers’ healthcare costs.
The U.S. could reduce Medicare spending by $30 billion if the country reduced its obesity rate by just 10%, said Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services Administrator Mehmet Oz.
Medicaid would see a correlated reduction in spending, said Oz, who also spoke at today’s press conference.
The foods on shelves at stores that participate in SNAP may soon change, according to Brooke Rollins, who heads the USDA. She said the USDA is finalizing what she called its “stocking standards.”
The agency will require the nearly 250,000 U.S. businesses that take the SNAP benefit to “double the type of staple foods that they provide for America’s SNAP households,” Rollins said. “This means healthier options will be in reach for all American families.”
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Brianna: Surviving Post-Cervarix Syndrome#Parent#Vaccines#HPV
By Laura Price, Newport Pagnell, Buckinghamshire UK
Brianna’s life after Cervarix
My daughter, Brianna, was an active dancer since the age of 2 and a member of the school athletic team. She has always been fit and healthy and very academic.
On September 28th 2011 at age 12 she had her first dose of the Cervarix vaccine. Shortly thereafter everything changed.
During the next 3 weeks she became increasingly unwell, experiencing fatigue, insomnia, constant nausea, increased body temperature, hot flushes, headaches and muscle and joint pain. She would attempt to go to school, but they would just send her home.
Her GP carried out several blood and urine tests, but all results were negative. We asked the GP could it be a reaction to the vaccine. Our GP contacted the manufacturers who confirmed that her symptoms were recognised reactions, but not generally after this length of time. However, our GP advised that she should not have the 2nd and 3rd doses of the vaccine in case.
Over the next 6 months Brianna could not handle more than 1 or 2 hours a week at school, some weeks there was no attendance. She also had to give up all sports and dancing.
To learn more about this period of Brianna’s life, read her original story here.
Post-Cervarix Syndrome: The next few years
In April 2012, after seeing the Paediatrician at our local hospital, she was referred to Gt Ormond Street Hospital to see the ME specialist team led by Dr Vic Larcher. It was then she received a diagnosis of CFS/ME (chronic fatigue syndrome/myalgic encephalomyelitis).
When we asked him if the vaccine could be the cause, his simple reply was, “I am treating a lot more girls with CFS/ME since its introduction.”
Since then treatment has been regular physiotherapy and for 18 months she had psychology to help her deal with having a chronic condition.
Brianna now has to take 20mg of Amitriptyline a day to help her sleep at night, co-codamol every day for pain relief and anti-nausea medication as and when required. She has also been having hydrotherapy and is currently waiting to get a TENS machine for pain relief.
After two and a half years, Brianna could manage to attend up to 11 hours of schooling a week. She has been further diagnosed with Raynaud’s disease, hypermobility syndrome and postural hypertension.
Brianna has a very small circle of 4 close friends, having lost a lot of social contact due to not being well enough to attend school and do all that other healthy teenagers do. This serves to make her feel even more isolated.
By February 2016, Brianna successfully gained high grades in 7 GCSE’s after a part-time timetable at school and a lot of self-teaching at home.
She now attends the 6th form and is studying 3 (the norm is 4) A-levels over a 12-hour week, only going in for lessons and doing all study periods at home. However, it is not often that she manages the entire 12 hours.
She still has a small circle of friends. Due to the increased work load at school, we have to keep an eye on social time to ensure she does not overdo things and miss important time in school. She tried to start dancing again, but unfortunately had to stop as she was finding it too much to handle.
She still has regular physiotherapy to work on increasing her exercise time. She had a goal of being able to go on a school trip to Barcelona in July of this year and the school would only let her take part if her physiotherapist confirmed that she was fit enough. She did manage to go, however, it then meant she missed the week of school after her return, as she was so tired.
Brianna continues to take amitriptyline to help her sleep at night and attends hospital in London twice a year to be seen by a CFS/ME consultant who monitors her progress.
She has passed her driving test and has her own car, which is a great help in preserving her energy levels and enables her to easily get to and from school.
We have been looking at further education at University, but at this stage Brianna really is not sure if she would be able to cope.
She spent a lot of time trying to find a part time job, like her friends have, but it was very difficult to find something that she could cope with without over doing it. She now has a small job helping in a local hairdressers and they are very understanding of her condition and work around the hours she can do.
We would love her to have a normal teenage life.
One of the Best Gifts from my Father#Love#Chiro#Family
By Jennifer Vranes
When I was a child I was very inquisitive.
Coming from a family of eleven children, one-on-one time with a parent was special.
I used to love to go with my dad on Saturdays, to make the bank drop, and get a lollipop, after his Saturday morning office visits.
We had what’s called, a home-office combination.
The front of our home had a welcoming entrance to my father’s chiropractic office.
There was a waiting room, chiropractic assistant’s main area, my father’s private office, four patient rooms, a bathroom, and a dark room for developing films.
The architect, that built, and lived in the home, before our family, had designed the majority of the home, with large floor-to-ceiling windows.
This was entertaining to the chiropractic assistants, who from their side of the house, could see us children, playing, and being the silly, adventurous sorts we were.
The other half of the house was busy cooking, cleaning, reading, playing the piano, and many other instruments, vinyl records, and Atari, chatting on the phone, and entering, and exiting the yard, and the many places, a family of thirteen would go.
This made for entertainment for the patients as well.
Guessing what delectable dish my mother was cooking, hearing the occasional plunk on the piano, with the thoughtless vocalizing to coincide with whatever 70’s/80’s tune was playing.
The clink of seven ice cubes to fill my dad’s large glass mugs of distilled water, and the three beeps on the intercom, if the home was getting a bit too loud.
Through our windows, we were entertained by the ongoing game of tag with the squirrels, who so abundantly, resided in the tall trees, throughout the property, and if you were lucky, you might spot a fluffy, white-tailed bunny.
Identifying the many beautiful birds that frequented our area. Red cardinals, blue jays, robins, and blackbirds, to name a few.
My mother, Sarah, loved to point out her favorite birds and often had a short poem or country phrase to share, that included that type of bird.
It was important to her, to cook from scratch, three meals a day, and she loved to listen to her favorite classical station, or the Mormon Tabernacle Choir on her short band radio in the background.
We would chuckle at the new patient, that would drive down the long driveway, only to wonder how the office in front, quickly transformed, to many a bicycle, and which door was the entrance.
As kids, we would run out to let the “lost” soul, find their way back to the office, and patient parking, thus the eventual placement of the “horses”, to block the top of the driveway.
Two traffic blockades, that soon attracted two childlike monkeys, to climb all over, and use as part of our obstacle course.
My little brother, whipping around them, with his handy Big Wheel handbrake, and me to follow on my smokin’ fast, banana seat Schwinn.
Our chiropractic assistants, a.k.a. C.A.’s, or at times second mothers, either found amusement while busily working, or the occasional wrap on the window, and disapproving look, if they saw us, engaging in a feat that would wind us up, next in line, for my dad’s office services.
My dad had a subtle sense of humor, these great little one-liners. Little did I know these were life-learning phrases.
I recall being befuddled, at one who deemed herself as a church-going, well-respected woman, yet too often, came across as short-tempered, and cold.
My dad eased my mind, by quietly under his breath, telling me she was about as cuddly as a cactus, with a little smirk to follow.
We would quietly chuckle to ourselves, and the little phrase resolved my concern and dissipated the confusion.
As a child, I didn’t like my dad to go out of town for work seminars. Sometimes, my dad would let me go up to the airport tower, to watch the planes fly in, at Chicago’s O’Hare International Airport, before jetting off to one of his destinations.
One time I asked him why he liked to work and attend these seminars. Not understanding, what could be better than spending time with me.
On many occasions, I would put my ear up to the sliding, wooden door separating the house from the office, and listen to hear if my dad was meeting with a patient.
If quiet, then I would slide open a crack of the door, ever so carefully. I may have had an adventure to share, an injustice to declare, or if I was lucky, I might have found my dad, peeling down the paper, of one of his many flavors of life savors.
My dad was a large-built, strong, macho kind of man, yet he made it a practice to always give a reassuring hug or hearty handshake, when greeting his patients.
I recall asking him, more out of disdain, why he always got up from his desk to greet his patients. I was conveniently standing right next to his private candy drawer, and perfectly poised to ask him, if he would like me to get him a lifesaver. In this case, I would have suggested the butter rum or cherry flavor. To my dismay, I was interrupted, as my dad hopped up to greet a patient in the next room.
When he returned, I asked him why he always hugged his patients. My great big dad, quietly, and reverently told me it was something he learned called, the Love Concept. I’m sure I shot him a, what are you talking about glance, and my dad went on to explain.
He said he had great respect for a man named, Dr. James Parker. I knew this name well, because my dad attended, and taught at many of the Parker seminars.
He said that people heal better when they know they are loved and cared about. He makes it a goal to reach out to each of his patients, in the office, every day.
That there is a power in the human touch.
There was a humble, quietness in the room after my dad shared this with me. This big, tough, protector of mine, making sure his patients knew that he cared about, and loved them.
I recall in another instance, overhearing an older man, who was one of his last patients of the day, being he had a labor-intensive manufacturing job.
This man choked up when my dad gave him a hearty hug. He said he hadn’t been hugged in a very long time.
It was no wonder to me, how my dad’s patients became friends and returned to his office for years and some decades.
When I was twelve, my younger brother, and I began attending these seminars with our parents.
Dad and I at a Parker Seminar Dinner
We had our classes, respective to our age. I recall a wife of a chiropractor, I believe from Arizona, teaching a story about the lively wife who made life exciting, and playful in her home, but went too far, and the family, all too often ate late at night. Compared to the highly-disciplined, but the not too fun wife, who ran an orderly, but boring home, and how a happier home would be a balance of the two.
I remember how genuinely happy, and fun these seminars were, and the many successful families I saw.
When I woke up this morning, thoughts of this love concept came to mind.
I wanted to write my thoughts down.
I looked up the school, where my father was an instructor, in his later years, Parker College of Chiropractic.
In retrospect, he could have taught anywhere, but he moved our family from Illinois to Texas, so he could be a part of this college and its teachings.
I was surprised to find the love concept had many more ideas.
A flood of remembrances ensued. I see now, that these ideals, shaped my life, in many more ways, than I ever knew.
I hear my father’s voice in such phrases as:
“If it is to be, it is up to me.”
“Do not let the negative few overrule the positive many.”
“I will anticipate the good – even during the bad.”
“Loving service is my first technique.”
“Develop a compassion to serve that is greater than the compulsion to survive.”
My heart is warmed, in hearing the strength of my dad’s voice, in these words today. A legacy I will always treasure.
I love you, Dad, you are missed.
Dr. Alfred Z. States
October 12, 1929 to January 23, 2009
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