{"id":514784,"date":"2026-03-04T23:59:16","date_gmt":"2026-03-04T23:59:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/514784\/"},"modified":"2026-03-04T23:59:16","modified_gmt":"2026-03-04T23:59:16","slug":"over-200-doctors-and-nutrition-researchers-call-for-science-based-dietary-guidelines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/514784\/","title":{"rendered":"Over 200 Doctors And Nutrition Researchers Call For Science-Based Dietary Guidelines"},"content":{"rendered":"

Hundreds of doctors and nutrition researchers have called for a return to science-based recommendations<\/a> in the 2025\u20132030 Dietary Guidelines for Americans.<\/p>\n

The new US dietary guidelines prioritize an inverted food pyramid and place high-impact animal products like red meat and dairy alongside vegetables and fruit, despite conflicting with almost all messaging from scientists and health experts.<\/p>\n

Read more: A US Senator Just Sponsored The \u2018Plant-Powered School Meals Pilot Act\u2019<\/a><\/p>\n

In an open letter<\/a> to the US Health Secretary Robert F Kennedy Junior, known as RFK Jr, and Department of Agriculture Secretary Brooke L Rollins, 210 health and science professionals highlighted multiple internal inconsistencies within RFK Jr\u2019s new guidelines, and also called for an immediate return to science-based guidance.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe are deeply concerned that the advice in the recently released 2025\u20132030 Dietary Guidelines for Americans (DGA) is, at best, confusing, and, at worst, harmful to public health,\u201d the letter said.<\/p>\n

The Dietary Guidelines Advisory Committee (DGAC) previously concluded that eating more plant-based proteins and less processed meat and animal products would support positive health outcomes. However, the DGA disregarded these findings and instead prioritized reviews from the newly created Scientific Foundation.<\/p>\n

\u2018The majority of authors had relevant conflicts of interest\u2019<\/p>\n

\u201cThe majority of the Scientific Foundation\u2019s evidence reviews were narrative reviews, largely authored by one person,\u201d the open letter explained. \u201cGiven that the majority of authors had relevant conflicts of interest and were largely reviewing the scientific literature in a non-systematic way, the risk of bias across the Scientific Foundation\u2019s reviews is much higher compared to the DGAC\u2019s reviews.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cWe call on the US Department of Agriculture (USDA) and the US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) \u2013 as well as professional medical and nutrition associations \u2013 to issue science-based dietary guidance that truly promotes health and prevents chronic disease,\u201d the letter said.<\/p>\n

Read more: RFK Jr Reveals Carnivore Diet, Says He Only Eats \u2018Meat And Ferments\u2019<\/a><\/p>\n

New Dietary Guidelines for Americans described as \u2018contradictory and often unscientific\u2019<\/p>\n

\"PhotoAdobe Stock The new Dietary Guidelines for Americans place red meat, poultry, and milk alongside fresh fruits and vegetables<\/p>\n

In February, a separate paper<\/a> published by The Lancet described the new US dietary guidelines as \u201ca recipe for poorer health.\u201d The authors noted how this year\u2019s DGA \u201cupended\u201d a rigorous and transparent process and replaced it with a \u201cconflicted and compromised\u201d version, producing \u201ccontradictory and often unscientific\u201d guidelines.<\/p>\n

Some advice from the new guidelines, such as prioritizing beef tallow<\/a> and butter over seed oils, has likely come directly from<\/a> RFK Jr. Experts have predicted that if even a modest number of Americans follow the meat-heavy guidelines, it would require hundreds of millions of acres of new agricultural land.<\/p>\n

Read more: Meat-Heavy US Nutrition Guidelines Will Require Millions Of Acres Of New Farmland<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Hundreds of doctors and nutrition researchers have called for a return to science-based recommendations in the 2025\u20132030 Dietary…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":514785,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[49,48,48925,84,44,395,4509,66],"class_list":{"0":"post-514784","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nutrition","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-dietary-guidelines","11":"tag-health","12":"tag-news","13":"tag-nutrition","14":"tag-rfk-jr","15":"tag-science"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/514784","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=514784"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/514784\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/514785"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=514784"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=514784"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=514784"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}