Health News Update: New Dietary Guidelines Prioritize Plants over Meat
Hello everyone:
Here is some good news coming from our government, and it is about the updated guidelines from the U.S.D.A. and H.H.S. The link below will take you to the entire document that is available for download at no cost. Basically, this is the document that the Scientific Report of the 2025 Dietary Guidelines Advisory Committee has submitted as the basis for updating the U.S. dietary pattern that best supports our health. It has changed in interesting ways.
“The scientific report that offers evidence-based guidance for the next iteration of the Dietary Guidelines for Americans has been submitted to federal agencies, and the document — which already has generated controversy due to its emphasis on plant-based foods — is now open for public comment.
The advisory committee that developed the report examined the scientific evidence on specific nutrition and public health topics using data analysis, systematic reviews, and food modeling.”
“We saw something over and over again — when you look at a population level, diets for which the predominant composition was plants performed better when it came to health outcomes,” advisory committee member Cheryl Anderson, PhD, MPH, who is a professor and dean of the Herbert Wertheim School of Public Health and Human Longevity Science at the University of California San Diego, told Medscape Medical News. “There’s a pretty consistent body of literature showing benefits of fruits, vegetables, and legumes and reductions in salt, added sugars, and saturated fats.”
https://www.dietaryguidelines.gov/2025-advisory-committee-report
Bottom Line:
What this means to you and I is that the data continues to show that reducing animal based foods, added sugars, processed foods (and the chemical additives in them), salt, saturated fats, total fat and increasing vegetables, fruits, beans and legumes, nuts, seeds, whole grains and mostly unprocessed or minimally processed (home cooking) foods is what leads to better health for nearly everyone. It could go further in regard to lowering toxic burdens by avoiding plastics, frying, going mostly organic, etc. and hopefully that will come sooner than later.
In previous blogs I have put some links to help you get started going plant-based, and here they are again. Making this move can add years to your life and life to those years. Doing this is the best long-term investment you can make…you will never regret feeling healthy and living longer and better by making this upgrade a priority. If you find a guide that you find is better than these, please let me know…thank you!
1. https://simplyplantbasedkitchen.com/
3. https://hellonutritarian.com/nutritarian-power-prep-program/
4. https://cookingcourse.forksoverknives.com/
5. https://www.drfuhrman.com/blog/210/beginners-guide
PS: For most of us, there are just four things that can significantly upgrade & maintain your health:
1. What you eat.
2. When you eat.
3. How much you move/exercise.
4. How you handle stress/sleep.
The benefits that you get from all of them depend entirely upon what and when you eat, so always start there and as you master one aspect, move on to the next. Take your time, don’t rush, do it right and reap the benefits. In my clinical experience, those who make proper food a priority are the ones that get the best results.
