BY MICHAEL THOMAS
Nina Teicholz, who holds a Ph.D. and is a science journalist and author, calls the 421-page scientific report for the 2025 U.S. Dietary Guidelines “Insufficient and contradictory.”
These are strong words, but after examining some of the dietary guidelines I am afraid she is correct, and anyone who cares about their health from a dietary point of view would agree.
Here are some of the key recommendations in this report.
- Reducing red and processed meats.
- Replacing poultry, meat, and eggs with peas, beans, and lentils as protein sources.
- No limits on ultra-processed foods, or UPFs.
- Continued caps on saturated fats are to be replaced by vegetable (seed) oils.
Despite pressure from people like Robert F. Kennedy Jr., to quit serving junk foods (aka ultra-processed foods- UPFs), the so-called expert committee responsible for the report insisted that the evidence for urging reductions in UPFs was “limited.” Translation, according to these experts, junk foods are good for children.
To add insult to injury, nine out of the 20 members who made these recommendations were found to have ties with: food, pharmaceutical, or weight loss companies, or industry groups with a stake in the outcome of the guidelines. This information was revealed thanks to a report by the non-profit public interest group, U.S. Right to Know.
The Right to Know makes it clear that the aim in calling out this scam of a recommendation, is to provide fuller disclosure of conflicts of interest of the members of the 2025 Dangerous Goods Advisory Council (aka DGAC), including: financial and other ties during the last five years to the: food, pharmaceutical, grocery, and other industries with a stake in the outcome of the dietary guidelines.
The 35-page report accuses the: food, beverage, and pharmaceutical companies, as well as large grocery chains with a financial stake in the DGA, of repeatedly attempting and often succeeding in influencing the guidelines.
What could these Dietary Guidelines folks be thinking by allowing themselves to become compromised on matters concerning the nation’s health? Could this be just a few cases of mismanagement by uncertified people, or is this just a satanic plot to maliciously misguide the population?
Doesn’t this so-called committee know that poor diet contributes to the development of many chronic diseases and illnesses, including: obesity, type 2 diabetes, cardiovascular disease, cancer, dementia, depression, chronic kidney disease, and all-cause mortality? This cannot be allowed to continue.
According to government data, “Americans have largely practiced the guidelines, and despite this, we have not only become sick, but very sick.”
Supporting this view is a congressionally mandated report by the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, which observed in 2017 that, “The U.S. dietary guidelines are not currently ‘Trustworthy,’ in part due to a ‘Lack of scientific rigor’ in the process.”
When it came to producing evidence on its advice to reduce meat, poultry, and eggs, let’s just say this committee was weighed and found lacking. It is all good to tell folks they need to drop meat and dairy, but then what? This advice does not consider that plant-based proteins are not as complete as those from animals and also not as bioavailable. Anyone let alone any committee that encourages this without sound alternative nutritional backing does not have the people’s best health interest at heart.
After being called out on their misleading advice and faulty recommendations, U.S. Departments of Agriculture (aka USDA) and Health and Human Service (aka HHS) officials responded in classic gaslighting fashion stating that the critics are spreading misinformation.
Dr. Nina Teicholz had this to say of USDA-HHS and the involved parties, “I’m not a fan of the term ‘misinformation,’ but with respect to non-evidence-based dietary advice, the USDA-HHS are prominent actors.”
From looking at who is on the conflict-of-interest list involved, there are no surprises. Almost all the usual suspects are in attendance: Pfizer, Mead Johnson Pediatric Nutrition Institute, Nestlé Nutrition Institute, Rhythm Pharmaceuticals, WW International (formerly Weight Watchers International), just to name a few. These are just some of the folks that the people writing your “dietary guidelines” are in bed with.
If I were a betting man, I would say the plan is to mislead you with a faulty diet, then when you become sick, which eventually would happen, present the healing in the form of certain vaccines, but I digress.
