{"id":141016,"date":"2025-11-19T04:01:13","date_gmt":"2025-11-19T04:01:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/141016\/"},"modified":"2025-11-19T04:01:13","modified_gmt":"2025-11-19T04:01:13","slug":"were-ending-the-war-on-saturated-fats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/141016\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018We\u2019re ending the war on saturated fats\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"

Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.<\/a> has announced new diet<\/a> guidelines will be released next month as part of the \u201cwar on saturated fats.<\/a>\u201d<\/p>\n

Kennedy said at the Food Allergy Fund Leadership Forum on Monday, \u201cWe\u2019re ending the war on saturated fats in this country. So, we\u2019re going to publish dietary guidelines that are going to stress the importance of protein and saturated fats,\u201d The Hill <\/a>reported.<\/p>\n

\u201cAnd those will come out, I think, next month,\u201d Kennedy said. \u201cI think that will really revolutionize the food system in the country, the food culture in this country.\u201d<\/p>\n

According to current national dietary guidelines<\/a>, saturated fat should make up less than 10 percent of a person\u2019s calories per day starting at the age of two. There are also recommended limits on added sugars and sodium.<\/p>\n

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Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has announced new diet guidelines that will be released next month as part of the ‘war on saturated fats’ (Kevin Dietsch\/Getty Images)<\/p>\n

The American Heart Association warns<\/a> that too much saturated fat can raise a person\u2019s bad cholesterol, which can increase the risk of heart disease and stroke.<\/p>\n

The association recommends an even smaller fraction of saturated fat <\/a>in a person\u2019s diet \u2014 6 percent of their total daily calories.<\/p>\n

Kennedy has said that he follows a carnivore diet<\/a>, which features meats such as beef, pork and poultry as well as seafood. Eggs and full-fat dairy products such as cheese and butter are also included.<\/p>\n

The health secretary previously talked about his diet to Fox News: \u201cIt\u2019s mainly meat and then fermented \u2014 anything fermented. So, a lot of yogurt, good yogurt without sugar in it. Then, coleslaw and kimchi and all kinds of fermented vegetables.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI would say it\u2019s dramatically changed my, you know, everything,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

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Kennedy has said that he follows a carnivore diet, which features meats such as beef, pork and poultry as well as seafood (Ronaldo Schemidt\/AFP via Getty Images)<\/p>\n

Kennedy has also been pushing to change other parts of Americans\u2019 diets, including the elimination of petroleum-based synthetic dyes by the end of 2026<\/a> as part of the Trump administration\u2019s \u201cMake America Healthy Again\u201d <\/a>initiative.<\/p>\n

Kennedy has called these synthetic dyes \u201cpoisonous compounds\u201d that \u201cpose real, measurable dangers to our children\u2019s health and development.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Food and Drug Administration said on its website <\/a>that scientific evidence shows \u201cmost children have no adverse effects when consuming foods containing color additives, but some evidence suggests that certain children may be sensitive to them.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has announced new diet guidelines will be released next…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":141017,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[5358,57304,163,19547,85,46,543,507,60919,87147,35762],"class_list":{"0":"post-141016","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nutrition","8":"tag-carnivore-diet","9":"tag-dietary-guidelines","10":"tag-health","11":"tag-health-and-human-services","12":"tag-il","13":"tag-israel","14":"tag-nutrition","15":"tag-robert-f-kennedy-jr","16":"tag-saturated-fats","17":"tag-the-american-heart-association","18":"tag-the-hill"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141016","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=141016"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141016\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/141017"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=141016"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=141016"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=141016"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}