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delichonlast Wednesday at 3:31 PM7 repliesview on HN

This meme is very healthy among MAHA, and Secretary Kennedy is overseeing an overhaul of the Dietary Guidelines, recasting saturated fat as a health food. There is a lot of speculation that we will soon see a new food pyramid that is an inverted version of the last one.

https://www.npr.org/sections/shots-health-news/2025/10/08/nx...

I wonder if it will keep flipping as administrations change.

Edit: The new guidelines are expected to be released today.

https://www.wfla.com/news/national/kennedy-wants-to-end-war-...


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alphazardlast Wednesday at 3:43 PM

> There is a lot of speculation that we will soon see a new food pyramid that is inverted.

Pretty much everyone I know understands that the food pyramid is the product of various lobbies coming together and does not represent a legitimate theory of diet or nutrition. That is independent of their politics or opinions about RFK.

I don't think a change to the food pyramid would change anyone's actions, people haven't taken it seriously for decades.

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bluGilllast Wednesday at 3:54 PM

And most likely we will move too far in that direction in the near future. Too many people have their identity, religion, reputation, or paycheck invested in something about how they eat and so are unwilling to take an objective look at things. Instead they find studies that seem to fit their narrative and amplify them. They often will setup their experiments and data to get the results they want. And then we get into the reproducibility problem that science publications often have.

lostloginlast Wednesday at 3:49 PM

If you do the opposite of whatever Kennedy recommends, you probably wouldn’t be too far off doing the right thing.

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ericmcerlast Wednesday at 5:03 PM

It's a "meme" that sugar is worse for you than fat?

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biophysboylast Wednesday at 3:43 PM

What annoys me the most is that sat fat is a huge way that sugary products are made more palatable to people. People love butter. It is every chef's 2nd favorite tool, just after salt.

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