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White House Unveils New Dietary Guidelines: ‘Eat Real Food’

The Trump administration released new dietary guidelines Wednesday, encouraging Americans to eat more protein and healthy fats, while reducing their intake of highly processed foods and added sugars.

“My message is clear: Eat real food,” said Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. at a White House press conference announcing the changes.

The announcement comes as the Department of Health and Human Service and the Department of Agriculture released the “Dietary Guidelines for Americans, 2025-2030.”

The revised Guidelines, which are updated every five years, turn the well-known food pyramid – literally – upside down. It features three main food groups: Protein, Dairy and Healthy Fats; Vegetables and Fruits; and Whole Grains.

At the press conference, Food and Drug Commissioner Marty Makary explained the importance of updating the food pyramid:

“[This is] the most significant reset of federal nutrition policy in history,” Kennedy added. “These new guidelines will revolutionize our nation’s food culture and make America healthy again.”

HHS said the Guidelines emphasize “simple, flexible guidance” based in modern nutrition science:

  • Prioritize protein at every meal.
  • Consume full-fat dairy with no added sugars.
  • Eat vegetables and fruits throughout the day, focusing on whole forms.
  • Incorporate healthy fats from whole foods such as meats, seafood, eggs, nuts, seeds, olives, and avocados.
  • Focus on whole grains, while sharply reducing refined carbohydrates.
  • Limit highly processed foods, added sugars, and artificial additives.
  • Eat the right amount for you, based on age, sex, size, and activity level.
  • Choose water and unsweetened beverages to support hydration.
  • Limit alcohol consumption for better overall health

“We’re ending the war on saturated fats,” Kennedy added at the announcement, “And today our government declares war on added sugar.”

“Diets rich in vegetables and fruits reduce disease risk more effectively than many drugs. Whole grains outperform refined carbohydrates. [But] added sugars, especially sugar-sweetened beverages, drive metabolic disease.”

The new guidelines are sorely needed, given the abysmal state of the average American’s health.

According to HHS, over 70% of American adults are overweight or obese, with the United States facing the highest obesity and Type 2 Diabetes rates in the developed world.

Furthermore, 50% of Americans have prediabetes or diabetes; 75% of adults have at least one chronic condition; and 90% of U.S. healthcare spending goes to treating chronic disease.

“These Guidelines return us to the basics,” Secretary Kennedy said. “American households must prioritize whole, nutrient-dense foods — protein, dairy, vegetables, fruits, healthy fats, and whole grains — and dramatically reduce highly processed foods.”

The administration also launched a new website explaining the new food pyramid and provided additional resources: realfood.gov.

USDA Secretary Brooke Rollins said the new Guidelines finally “put real food back at the center of the American diet.”

The revamped Guidelines are an important step in ensuring school meals, military and veteran meals, and other nutrition programs promote “affordable, whole, healthy, nutrient-dense foods,” HHS said.

As Christians, Scripture doesn’t command us to eat certain foods or avoid others. And consuming various foods – maybe even some chips or a cookie every so often – shouldn’t be a matter of scrupulosity (Acts 10:15).

Nevertheless, Scripture also reminds us that our bodies are temples of the Holy Spirit, and we’re commanded to treat our bodies with due respect (1 Cor. 6:19-20).

The new Guidelines will help Americans do just that, opting for healthy and nutrient-dense foods that have been created by God for our enjoyment and nourishment.

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White House Considers Taking Billions from Harvard; Giving to Trade Schools Instead

The White House has declared it is considering taking $3 billion in federal funds away from Harvard University, which rests on a fat $53.2 billion endowment – the largest in the world – and giving the money to trade schools in order to educate working class Americans in meaningful, highly productive trades.

On Sunday morning, the White House posted:

Focus on the Family and Daily Citizen strongly applaud this policy proposal. The reason is simple. Getting young men good paying jobs is fundamental for good family formation. Many young women will tell you that they are having a hard time finding marriageable men. Men will tell you they are disinclined to seek a wife when they do not have the means to support her and children.

Recent research conducted jointly at Yale, Cornell and Harvard notes that “economic outcomes for other non-college men have sharply declined, accompanied by a drop in marriage rates for non-college women.” These women are not likely to marry men who have no or very little real career prospects.

It has long been documented how workforce participation among men has been declining in our nation. You can see the declining trend line for male employment in the United States here. It is not an encouraging picture.

In a 2022 update to his very important book, Men Without Work, American Enterprise scholar Nicholas Eberstadt explains,

Job openings so exceed the ranks of America’s un-working prime-age men (those twenty-five to fifty-four neither working nor looking for work) that every member of this idle army could be placed in a job, and there would still be more than 3.9 million jobs awaiting candidates

He adds, “The average monthly work rate for prime-age men is lower that it was in March 1940.” We are currently doing worse than Depression-era employment for able-bodied men. That is a national tragedy.

The power of trade schools are a secret weapon in helping young men gain the confidence, skills and income they need to make them a more attractive mates to young women. While serving as a U.S. senator from Florida, Marco Rubio released an important 2023 report entitled “The State of the Working (and Non-Working) Man.” In that report, he warned that in order to prepare the next generation of American men to engage in civic and employment life, we must “change teaching practices, encourage marriage, and connect young men with vocational training and jobs.”

He added, “The federal government spends about $175 billion each year supporting postsecondary education and a tiny fraction of that amount on vocational education and training.” Our nation should be pumping a large portion of the billions it contributes to college education into helping young men learn powerful vocational and technical skills that could rebuild their confidence, launch new and meaningful trade careers and help establish new marriages and families, thus giving rebirth to our nation.

Marco Rubio contends, “The results could be transformational.” We think he is right, and we strongly support the president’s new announcement to put more national support behind vocational and technical training for men and women.

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