{"id":345525,"date":"2026-03-18T12:07:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-18T12:07:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/345525\/"},"modified":"2026-03-18T12:07:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-18T12:07:08","slug":"a-dietitian-and-doctor-review-rfk-jrs-new-food-pyramid-short-wave-npr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/345525\/","title":{"rendered":"A dietitian and doctor review RFK Jr’s new food pyramid : Short Wave : NPR"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\n The new dietary guidelines were announced earlier this year and place more emphasis on meat and dairy than previous guidelines.<\/p>\n

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U.S. Department of Agriculture\/U.S. Department of Health and Human Services<\/p>\n

A new food pyramid<\/a> was released earlier this year. It flips the old food pyramid \u2013 which prioritized grains \u2013 on its head. Now, the pyramid emphasizes protein, full-fat dairy and what Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. calls “healthy fats.”<\/p>\n

These guidelines influence the standards that shape school lunches, food labeling and programs like SNAP.<\/p>\n

Today on the show, Short Wave co-host Emily Kwong chats with registered dietitian nutritionist Shana Spence<\/a>, and Dr. Sarah Kim<\/a>, a diabetes specialist, about the new guidelines. Plus, NPR’s Reflect America fellow Kadin Mills<\/a> unpacks how the new food pyramid could change school lunch trays.<\/p>\n

Check out more of Kadin’s coverage<\/a> about the changes in dietary guidelines.<\/p>\n

Interested in more health science? Email us your question at shortwave@npr.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Listen to every episode of Short Wave sponsor-free and support our work at NPR by signing up for Short Wave+ at plus.npr.org\/shortwave<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Listen to Short Wave on Spotify<\/a> and Apple Podcasts<\/a>.<\/p>\n

This episode was produced by Rachel Carlson and Rebecca Ramirez. It was edited by Brent Baughman. Tyler Jones and Aru Nair checked the facts. The audio engineer was Kwesi Lee.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The new dietary guidelines were announced earlier this year and place more emphasis on meat and dairy than…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":345526,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[163,85,46,543],"class_list":["post-345525","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nutrition","tag-health","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-nutrition"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/345525","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=345525"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/345525\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/345526"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=345525"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=345525"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=345525"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}