The Trump administration flipped the food pyramid upside down on Wednesday with the announcement of new dietary guidelines. The news is a huge moment for MAHA, the campaign to Make America Healthy Again, by casting aside old ways and entrenched interests that proponents blame for allowing America to get sicker and sicker.
Marty Makary, the commissioner of the Food and Drug Administration, and his deputy Kyle Diamantas, laid out the case for the new pyramid in an op-ed for The Free Press, which you can read here. We also asked some doctors, journalists, and other health experts what they think of the changes. Here’s what they told us.
The Good and Bad of the New Guidelines
By Ezekiel J. Emanuel
Here is my hot take on Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s new dietary guidelines.
First, the good:
