The good are things we've known for a while. Most of them result in unintended decrease in calories consumed and resulting weight/fat loss.

- More protein (than the prior RDA of 0.39g/lb) can lead to inadvertent caloric restriction and weight loss, and obesity is driving a large number of negative health outcomes. Also improves lean mass (muscle) retention during weight loss.

- Processed foods have lower satiety per calorie, and hence can lead to the same outcomes described above.

- Most people can benefit from eating more fruit and veggies. (Lots of people who change to vegetarian inadvertently eat significantly fewer calories because the food is not calorie dense)

The one glaring part I have a hard time reconciling is:

- This new Real Food guide seems like it's going to increase people's saturated fat intake, which is not good. DASH/Mediterranean diet seems to be a better model than both the prior and new pyramids.