Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F Kennedy Jr has released a new food pyramid guide for Americans.
The Dietary Guidelines for Americans released today meshes MAHA-influenced changes with longer-standing advice for people to cut sugar consumption while eating more protein, whole grains and colorful fresh vegetables and avoiding “highly processed” foods.
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If you don’t think about food as medicine for your body, eventually medicine will become your food.
My red meat is missing.
It’s on the top row.
I see pork and chicken…
No red meat.
Pork is generally considered to be red meat.
Remember the old commercials that called pork “the other white meat?” It wasn’t true, but apparently, it increased pork consumption.
Yes. It was a marketing campaign by pork producers during an era when red meat was thought to be unhealthy. So pork producers got the idea to say that it wasn’t red meat.
Rib eye top left just above salmon
Above the salmon and next to the cheese, top left.
Note the steak and hamburger in the upper left hand corner just under the Swiss cheese.
Nice big steak up on the left!
looks like a t-bone on the top left
Isn’t that a steak on the top row left?
Beef is still very expensive (I have to eat a lot of it), partly due to supply issues.
Yeah! Where’s the fn BEEF?
There’s a steak at the top next to salmon, ground beef, chicken and cheese.
I was referring the price percentage chart, NOT the food pyramid. No beef there..
How about bringing down the very healthy seafood . It just keeps going up !
First thing I saw was that large slab of red meat, top left.
And the hamburger meat. 😀
lean red meat
I see a steak on the top left.
We still have a beef shortage, so beef prices are going to remain high if American grown. Personally, I won’t eat foreign beef. That is also why I raise cattle, to keep the beef thing going at a much lower cost.
My best advice: don’t eat that slop in the grocery store; find a local farmer; invest in a good freezer; purchase a half or whole beef (you will save money doing it that way).
Did anyone else get an email about a meat price fixing 2015 to 2021 lawsuit? 🤔 Guess it is actually true.
https://www.fooddive.com/news/tyson-82-million-class-action-settlement-price-fixing-lawsuit/808836/
Spot on, Born Free. I frequent a 4th generation beef and hog farm with an FDA inspector on site. It’s an hour drive away, and they do an excellent job. My new favorite cut is a bavette. Pasture raised, no antibiotics or hormones. They even have farm tours, a camping area, and put on a shindig here and there.
We also raise beef Born Free and have it butchered for us.
Husband hunts so we have a freezer full of beef and venison.
I have not had to buy much meat from the store for several years.
We have many deer traveling through our property every day, lots of grouse that we call chickenses, and a month ago 5 large turkeys started showing up every day. In the fall we had a big black bear go through, too.
Told my husband we might want to get used to the taste of “wild” food now, since there’s a lot of it for free around these parts.
Some locales have numerous feral hogs available.
One of my friends hunted on my family’s land this year. He bagged two deer. He knows that I do not allow poisons to be applied out there. That is a plus.
Been doing that for nigh on a decade….
I love Trump. He loves our country!
Graphic is misleading. Easy to make the assumption that groceries might be cheaper now than before Biden and there’s such a long ways to go to get back to $2 butter and $1.50 eggs. Also %increase then % decrease is statistically confounding. Is it a decrease on Bidens high price or on the original price (bidens %increase is based on old cheap price, so its a large number, but trumps % decrease is based on bidens high price, so its 1% of biden $ is not the same as 1% of trump %? Does it include adjust iment in dollar value for inflation…). So the math is a little unclear. The graphic is just propaganda.
Yes, we know, prices went up astronomically under biden and have rolled back just a little under Trump. Real prices on a price chart might have been more helpful.
Pro tip:
When anyone presents a % graph without the underlying raw numbers, they are trying to Influence (trick) you.
Pro tip?
Pro what?
Implicit in your post is 1: The President’s lying to us..2: Sundance is passing the lie on to us…3: They’re using trickery to do it..and 4: that we lack the intelligence or discernment to recognize the alleged trickery and need you to point it out.
That’s a lot of insulting stuff packed into a two line post.
I’ll offer you the benefit of the doubt and say I hope that wasn’t your actual intent.
The Conservative Tree House doesn’t deal in trickery.
The Conservative Treehouse does not own the USDA from whence the graphics came.
Very succinctly said. Thank you.
“When anyone presents a % graph without the underlying raw numbers, they are trying to Influence (trick) you.”
Yes. Unless those underlying numbers are presented then the percent numbers are meaningless. And if the underlying numbers are presented first, then the percentages numbers are not necessary.
I have long held that presenting information in the form of percentages is the mathematical equivalent to speaking with a forked tongue.
Statistics don’t lie but statisticians do.
Prices have come down from Biden highs.
But they are still too high. No matter how the price changes are calculated, the prices are still too high.
We want the green to be as big or bigger than the red.
The Fed / Congress printed / created trillions of $ out of thin air – until the economy expends, which will take more time, it gonna happen.
Give it time. The Trump administration is trying to turn around a huge ship, with lots of small boats interfering and trying to sink the ship.
Don’t know the last time I saw $2 butter or $1.5 eggs. Then again I buy only raw butter and eggs from regenrative farms.
The statement is “Making” food more affordable to me implies it is a process.
We will never see $2 butter or $1.50 eggs again. Once the DNC gets on a roll it does not back up, regardless of the program.. We can slow the roll but we can never stop the escalation.. They’ve never met a tax increase or price hike they didn’t like or later reversed..
Paid $1.49 per dozen for eggs at Kroger yesterday, on sale, reg price $2.09, so there is that …
$1.49 per dozen at the store. I wonder what the price was at the farm.
That seems to be the historic case.
I pray President Trump’s economic policies will help create the exception and restore greater food affordability.
Today I purchased 18 eggs for $1.99 from The Market Basket chain. Granted they are not farm raised nor free rein. But at least egg prices have declined significantly.
There’s nothing misleading there whatsoever.
It clearly says prices are coming down under President Trump. Their words, not mine.
The Conservative Tree House doesn’t publish propaganda, thank you.
Shame on your sniveling post and on every up-vote it received.
“Graphic is misleading.”
Before analyzing any chart or graphic it is important to remember that in the those early Biden years we were, and maybe still are, influenced by one of the biggest economic upheavals our economy has ever had to absorb with the world shutting down for the Covid 19 fiasco.
That’s all well and good, but they obviously missed one food group ..pepperoni pizza.
lol….good one.
Learn to hunt, or allow access to your property in exchange for meat. You will develop a solid working relationship with local hunters, who will be happy to share the meat they harvest. And they’ll likely answer the call to assist in fence mending, ditch digging, and any other chore you can come up with….
Where’s the beef?
Excellent.
Now, let’s start talking about Lectins.
1st thing – you don’t want Lectins harming your gut.
Read Dr. Steven Gundry, MD (the internet is your friend)
That’s a keeper ^^^
100%!
Conservatives are generally bad at sloganeering. Like a verbal meme, it conveys a more complex message in an easily digest and remember format.
In short, slogans like this need to be adopted by 47’s administration.
The problem with that is, when overused, no matter how true, slogans tend to become shrugged off and ignored. Much like “guns don’t kill people, people do”. A slogan may serve a purpose for a short time, but they tend to come and go.
Definitely worth investing in good nutrition and eating healthy. Much prefer spending a little bit more now for high quality food that tastes good instead of spending a lot more for medication.
Exactly! If we don’t pay up front for good quality food, you will pay later WHEN you become sick from the junk we consume…
T-shirts and sweatshirts in 3-2-1 🎆
I want a tee shirt and a hoodie too.
Maybe Sundance could host a merch store. I’ll buy.
Good health is another from of wealth.
Absolutely!
It took less than a year. This from Zerohedge last April
https://www.zerohedge.com/medical/new-food-pyramid-metabolically-unwell-nation
I hope this is used to determine what foods can be bought with SNAP cards.
Can you imagine some of those nuts on tic toc showing what they buy on food stamps realizing no more Junk food. If MAHA doesn’t restrict Food stamps then these pronouncements are useless
The food pyramid will also influence the school lunch program.
Upvoting x 1000
Yes!!!
Yes. When I went to school, we had Grannies cooking the school lunches and the food was healthy and tasted good, especially the Italian Grannies food!
Steak and eggs for breakfast!
Cooked with butter of course.
That’s the way to start the day.
For sure!
Am blessed to have found two restaurants that will cook specially with butter or olive oil for me so that I can actually eat there, since I can’t have industrial seed oil.
I make sure to leave a big tip when I go there, thank them, and tell them the reason why I’m happy to support them.
You spelled bacon wrong. No need for butter.
Butter Up That Bacon
Not so sure… 🙂
(Click on link)
Yum, Yum. When I traveled around the states, I always ate steak and eggs for breakfast.
Big Pharma and Big Agriculture decided a long time ago that profits matter more than people.
There’s no money in healthy or cured patients.
I recently heard a long-time cardiologist say that standard cardiac treatment is the cash cow of the medical industry.
It was under Reagan that ketchup was counted as a veggie for school lunches.
John Heinz was in the senate back then.
I see what you did there!
I’m assuming the bottle of oil in the new food pyramid diagram represents good quality organic olive oil or avocado oil. Get rid of the industrial seed oils and bioengineered foods and suddenly I’ll be pretty much cured of my “food allergies” … which actually seem to be more like allergies to toxins, chemical additives, and GMOs rather than to food.
Consume
✅ Butter
✅ Ghee
✅ Coconut oil
✅ Avocado oil
✅ Olive oil
✅Flax oil
✅Almond oil
✅ Tallow (beef fat)
✅ Lard
✅ Duck fat
Avoid
❌ canola oil
❌ vegetable oil
❌ corn oil
❌ soybean oil
❌ sunflower oil
❌ safflower oil
❌ peanut oil
❌ margarine
❌ shortening
Thanks for the helpful list, Graystone1221!
Have a healthy day!
Look for grass fed or pasture raised on the animal fats for the maximum benefits… much higher in omega three and lower in omega six. A lot of the health problems is caused by a big deficit in omega three.
Flax is a seed oil. Healthier than the ones to avoid but I limit its consumption.
Yes, Flaxseed oil is highly sensitive to light and heat and must be properly pressed and stored. It goes rancid very quickly if exposed to oxygen. Joanna Budwig used it in her cancer healing protocol (mixed with cottage cheese). It’s an amazing oil!
Seseme oil is part of my larder, along with olive oil, ghee, non-hydroginated lard, & of course, bacon fat.
Yes, it’s much better to include ground flax seed in your diet than the processed oil.
Graystone 1221 makes a good point about how easily the oil goes rancid, and this can also be the case with the seeds.
I’ve found it’s best to grind them yourself as needed, and keep the seeds well refrigerated.
I just started grinding my own. I did not refrigerate the seeds though.
Yeah, it’s a good idea. I learned the hard way. lol
Teddie’s makes a natural peanut butter with flax – the seeds, not the oil – and salt, nothing else.
I’m way older than the generations that started getting peanut allergies, so this stuff is a favorite of mine and gives me no trouble. The seeds also make the natural p.b. much easier to mix.
As with all the high calorie foods, though, I’m very careful with portion size.
mmmm! Sounds good! I’ll look for some.
In a book titled, ‘Healing Spices,’ the author (sorry I can’t remember his name right now) said that Sesame Seed oil is one of the few oils that keeps for a very long time and is also a “healing spice” with many curative things in it.
Organic, fresh pressed Sesame Seed oil.
It is nearly impossible to buy real olive oil at the grocery store. 90% is fake.
My acupuncturist orders Calivirgin’s first-press, extra-virgin, organic unfiltered Nuovo olive oil (for patients, once a year).https://www.calivirgin.com/
I look for olive oil from Italy. Worth the money.
Our bodies do not process or brake down most grains and are good for nothing but scraping out your digestive system.
Eat nothing but peanuts and can corn and wheat for a week and see what happens.
Most protein in the form of meat is so contaminated especially pork and most all beef because it comes from South America.
Pork is contaminated in Canada where a majority of pork comes from before it goes to Chinese owned processors for who knows what.
Most vegetables come from countries especially Mexico where raw sewage is used on fields and many people have gotten sick and died.
Why is this not addressed instead of changing the pyramid which is just common sense.
wild caught tuna in olive oil is wonderful
And Tuna is usually full of high levels of mercury, unfortunately.
One step a time. This a great step for reprogramming many minds that are still stuck in the old food pyramid way of doing things. It sounds like you’re much farther along in your journey, which is awesome! But don’t forget to bring up the people behind you. 🙂
I heard a rumor many years ago that Obama said “horsemeat” could be labeled as beef. Some of those canned meats and soups sure taste like it.
Have you ever tried horse meat?
I have, when I lived in Italy, but wasn’t told it was horse meat until after I finished the meal. Thought it was okay, not too different than beef. I probably wouldn’t deliberately buy it.
I have smelled it cooking.
My Aunt use to cook it for her dog ..
PU lol
Had it in France, delish!
Who says that the USDA cannot address food safety at the same time they are rewriting the food pyramid?
The USDA is a huge agency.
One step at a time, sanjac.
Kinda hard to put all that in a poster.
Sadly, so many grains and even vegetables are chemically treated to “help” in harvesting (all those immigrants that came in illegally to “work” on the farms weren’t there to do manual labor the way it was done 50-100 years ago) and the lack of labor has resulted in an increase in the use of chemicals to promote “ripening” at the same time, etc.
No food pyramid is great if you don’t get the chemicals out of the gardens!!
Eggs should be all the way UP at the TOP where the FROZEN (frozen?!) STARCHY veg, peas, is located.
Yes.
Chop some baby spinach, put olive oil in a skillet , stir in the chopped baby spinach, add 2 or 3 eggs (3rd is for my pup 12 years old) put a hand full of grated sharp cheddar cheese on top then lid it and cook until your eggs dont move. 🙂
Olive Oil has too low of a smoke point.
To avoid consuming oil that has reached the carcinogenic point, add a HIGHER smoke point oil like Coconut oil or ghee to the lower smoke point oil.
That raises the smoke point of the whole mixture.
I keep my heat low.
I have heard coconut oil stays where you put it in your body. This was from a skinny oriental… 🙂
Lots of good and educational books on the benefits of Coconut Oil.
Skinny is not a sign of robust health.
Can also use avacado oil which has a high smoke point.
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Avocado oil has a very high smoke point and is an excellent choice for cooking or frying.
Olive oil sprayed on food works great in an air fryer, even at 400 degrees!
a little oil in the skillet with chopped kale — makes it slide into the trashcan easier.
lol
You bad girl!
Eat. Your. Kale. 😉
Lol, Hubby said that’s used to decorate the plate, not for eating 😂😂😂
Tried to hide it in salad… didn’t work.
Hey frozen peas is better than cake! It’s still such a win!
All that starch in the peas turns to sugar in your body.
So, it’s not a statistically significant improvement over sugary/starchy cake.
The only “dessert” Vietnamese friends of ours make is a malt or milk shake substitute made just by blending peas.
It is good, but still tastes like peas.
Peas are a good source of protein and fiber.
We don’t need fiber that much.
In fact for many people fiber clogs up the works, so to speak.
And, peas do NOT have a COMPLETE protein.
That is, peas do not contain ALL the Essential Amino Acids.
This is why Vegans are in serious trouble after they’ve had the cleansing effect of the Vegan diet.
Their bodies (ALL bodies) need ALL the Essential Amino Acids in each meal each day..
And some of us DO need the fiber.
Peas are not a complete source of protein, true, but if a person is on a budget they can help increase total protein in a recipe while decreasing the amount of (expensive) meat in that recipe, by adding peas.
We humans are a diverse bunch, and what works for one person may not for another.
Every human needs all the essential amino acids daily.
Eggs have all the essential amino acids.
Your body is a wonderful machine. If you give it what it needs you can fix it.
I am 85 in March and on NO daily medicines.
We ate what we grew on 30 acres for 20 yrs and the oil we use is xtra virgin organic olive oil.
Reading about saturated fat the good oil will help carry and possibly clean your blood streams.
Read the book Grain Brain.. that helped us.
Adele Davis wrote a book about Cook it well something like that.
Take care of the body God gave you.
huggs:)
Amen, BE. I’m 71, no chronic illnesses, no medications, unvaccinated, and beat cancer 15 years ago by changing my diet. Still going strong. I hope we hear from you when you’re 100! Peace to you and yours.
Wow! you are awesome.
You as well when you are 100
huggs
And hugs to you.
Love to read about your excellent health and wise way of eating.
Love to hear it.
I would add lifestyle change to intermittent fasting for cellular maintenance and regeneration. Eat one time per day in a three to five hour window depending on your personal situation. And NEVER consume calories before 12pm unless it’s part of a scientifically sound pre-workout regimen.
I eat all my calories between 6 a.m. and noon. I get up at around 4:30 a.m. I am never hungry until the next morning.
in that configuration, you are good! Especially if you exercise in the early afternoon. The not before noon advice applies to most but there are of course exceptions.
A little fasting time between is good .
Eating can like anything else be a habit.
Years back I would walk a 20 minute mile on my treadmill…. Did that for 2 years.
Now I have an inversion teeter hang up get all my bones back in line. Maybe just rock back and forth level lubricating my disc/spine.
Fasting time between meals is essential for health for almost everyone.
Most people should be eating 2 meals a day, unless they are employed in heavy manual labor every day.
Different windows for different people. Depends on lifestyle. My eating window for example is noon to 6. Sometimes later but no later than 8pm.
Better results with a smaller window.
Different windows for different people. Depends on lifestyle.
It’s time to focus on quality food. The price of good meats, especially beef, needs to come down. Good cage free eggs are very healthy and now reasonable. Organic fruits and vegetables in season or frozen.
A healthy diet works wonders in most cases. Learn to enjoy the taste of real, fresh food.
Farmers markets and a good, small chest freezer, can be your best friends when it comes to a healthy diet.
A crockpot and Instapot are great tools, too.
Cooking from scratch doesn’t have to be hard.
I watch the egg labels and buy pastured eggs rather than cage free. The ones marked cage free usually are from birds confined in large industrial poultry houses. They never go outside to get sunshine and fresh air where they can dine on bugs instead of eating solely what is fed to them.
DOn’t forget a good mineral rich salt! Another myth from Big Pharma–that salt is bad for you. They demonized Butter, Eggs, Salt and red meat–all the stuff that is the best for you!
Interesting, and great news!
As a farmer, my food pyramid is protein/meat as the bottom support structure, but I see how they flipped the pyramid on it’s head. In which case, that is accurate. Whatever you can grow/raise or purchase direct from a farmer or a farmer’s market should be the basis. We raise, chicken, beef, and pork on the farm.
The next level up is all things fresh milk (fresh milk for drinking, cheese, butter, yogurt, even ice cream). We raise dairy cows.
The next level is fruits and vegetables, either grown on the farm or obtained from neighbors or traded.
Towards the top of the pyramid is whole grains, because that is something you have to buy. It takes less importance.
I think that’s how most people used to live and why my grandparents lived to 100 years old with no major illnesses. I did not grow up learning how to do this. I learned it later in life when I wanted to flip the script on the modern American diet after watching so many family members become ill in the middle of their lives. Zero processed foods is my mantra.
P.S. NOT bragging y’all. It took significant resources to get to this stage late in life. It is significant work to manage a farm with livestock. I may not spend money at the grocery store, but I have a feed bill. It’s signifcantly less than a grocery store bill, but it still exists. My impetus for doing this was to change the trajectory of my very sick body, and it’s working.
Very true about the work involved in growing your own food.
That is why we never raised our own chickens.
They are a lot of work and we were all ready busy busy with our cattle and our farming.
So I bought eggs and everything else at the store.
Husband I are 72 and 74 and in pretty good health.
He takes no daily meds and I take only one.
So happy to hear you are reaping rewards ! And the physical exercise of animals and farm are doing your body good too I imagine!
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Pyramids can be important…
Up to a point 🙂
That comment deserves the briefest of smiles, a longer eye-roll, and an up vote.
Good point WORDMAN.
There are many many “guide lines” out there, not only about food but just about everything else in our lives.
Slavish obedience to these guide lines can do some damage if it is not tempered with life experience and knowing what works for us.
I commented above that my husband is 74 and takes no meds.
He loves his sweets, cookies and pies and cake etc,
I use to nag him about eating this crap and he would say “I know what works for me”.
I learned the hard way he is right.
We have been married for 50 years and he has been sick in bed only twice.
He will start to get a cold or the flu but always pulls out of it before it makes him sick enough to go to bed.
He seems to have some kind of super immune system that fights everything off before it gets a hold.
Haha
“If you don’t think about food as medicine for your body, eventually medicine will become your food.”
Amen.
I think of food as nourishment that leads me to my robust health.
Great News. Now we need to remove the “causes heart disease” stigma Bill Gates and friends employ against BEEF.
It is refined carbohydrates from any source that are the problem in the USA in my opinion.
High Fructose Corn Syrup is terrible for you and it is in everything.
We eat real sugar, if we have a soda it is with real sugar.
Saw the other day President Trump wanted coca cola to start using real sugar.
The Cokes from Mexico have real sugar.
Cancer eats sugar.
Amen, and it’s more than just an opinion, Annie. It’s a clinically proven fact.
As important as this is why has CTH been silent on Iran?
Why the shocking silence of Western mainstream media on the swelling Iran revolution over the past 11 days?
Only Tousi, an Iranian in the UK who set up the Tousi TV subscription and has most of his videos on Youtube, has been consistently reporting on his home country. He speaks Persian and can understand what the protestors are saying: They want to be rid of the IRGC and Supreme Leader and are tearing down Islamist posters.
Here is a slow motion train wreck that anyone noticing cannot help but see.
7 Jan 2026
Iranian Military And Police DEFECT To Revolution – Crown Prince Gives Order To Army
6 Jan 2026
Two Cities In Iran LIBERATED From Islamic Republic
Police In Iran JOIN Revolution – Iranians Take Over IRGC Bases
Tehran FALLS Into People’s Control – IRGC Pushed Out – Victory Is Close
5 Jan 2026
IRGC Defeated On Iran’s Streets – Islamic Bases Destroyed
Khamenei Plans Exit To Moscow – IRGC Lose Power In Iran
4 Jan 2026
Civil War Erupts In Iran – IRGC Lose Control Of Capital
Multiple Cities COLLAPSE In Iran As IRGC Retreat – Iranian Uprising
3 Jan 2026
Iranians HUNT Down IRGC Members – Islamists In Hiding
Islamic Republic FALLS APART In Iran – Crown Prince Takes Control Of Uprising
2 Jan 2026
IRGC Telecommunication Site DESTROYED By Iranians
Iranians BURN Down Islamic Buildings – Iran Uprising
1 Jan 2026
Iranians Take CONTROL Of IRGC Police Stations – Revolution In Iran
IRGC Forces FLEE Iranian Cities – Khamenei LEAVES Tehran
Iranians Capture IRGC Bases – Islamic Regime Is FALLING
31 Dec 2025
Islamic Republic Forces COLLAPSE In Iranian Cities
Iranians Take Control Of IRGC Governor’s Offices
Massacre In Iran Uprising – IRGC Begin Shooting Protesters
30 Dec 2025
Panic In Iran Over UPRISING – IRGC Declares State Of Emergency
29 Dec 2025
Anti-Islamic Iranians Take Control Of Cities – IRGC Resignations Begin
Uprising In Iran – Huge CLASHES With Islamic Occupiers
28 Dec 2025
Anti-Islamic Uprising In Iran ESCALATES – Currency COLLAPSES
Wrong thread. Please keep on topic.
I know it is on the wrong thread but I want to drive home the point that no reporting for 11 days often on matters that should not be totally overshadowing the events in Iran which may have a huge impact on the USA and its involvement in the Middle East warrant covering.
How many American soldiers have died quickly in that part of the world compared to those on a poor diet who have their lives impacted and shortend over a lifetime?
Reading comprehension isn’t your strong suit. Wrong thread.
There’s a better way to make your point than to scold the site and willfully defy the house’s posting guidelines.
As a daily viewer of Tousi TV (hat tip to Fuzzy Sweaters 47..) I would recommend you take a breath and remember you’re not the only one here who closely monitors what goes on in Iran or posts links to Mr. Tousi’s eagerly awaited reports.
It does Mahyar no favors to make negative, off topic posts associated with his channel and hard work, no matter your intentions.
As someone who prays for the success of the Iranian people’s brave and valiant efforts to throw off the islamist yoke, I would respectfully ask you to please consider a different approach, and place your posts on the Open Thread and/or Presidential Politics comments for better future results.
Perfect. The scumbag libtards will do the opposite.
The elite have known for decades that the food pyramid was a lie. And that includes the liberal elite.
Took one look and told my cat, “That’s what I eat!”
And your cat looked back and said, “I’m one step ahead of you, hooman. I’m on the carnivore diet … I can haz cheeseburger? (without the bread …)” * good-natured grin *
She can’t have my cheeseburger (without the bread). It’s mine! We have ’em about every other week.
Besides, the only two table scraps my cats even likes are the wrappers from smoked salmon, and the liquid from a tuna can, which I call their “soup.” They come running fastest for that…
Love the saying.
I love these new guidelines!
Honestly, I don’t think dietary guidelines are the responsibility of the government. However, the old guidelines did so much damage that it is important to try to reverse it.
Is it perfect? No, but how can it be? I eat no grains and very few vegetables but I would not advise everyone to have the same diet as me. I’m just glad that the demonization of red meat and saturated fats is over!
My keto sensibilities puts fruits and vegetables lower and fats – avocado, butter, beef tallow, etc higher.
Am right there with you.
Same – only Carnivore Diet – check it out on YT/Rumble – pay attention to the Comments.
Not quite pure carnivore yet. Been following Steak and Butter Girl. Only vegetables I’ve been consuming are asparagus, mushrooms, cabbage, arugula and red peppers.
And dairy fats – I absolutely adore good cheeses.
I read or heard somewhere recently a new study that found full-fat dairy – cheese, cream, milk, etc. – can help prevent Alzheimer’s.
All right! I knew things were looking up, when I saw the R.F.K Jr. swearing-in* with his right hand placed on a 2″thick ribeye.. ‘;]
*courtesy of the BBee
you cannot out exercise a bad diet
fat IS your enemy (not food fat, but body fat)
if you can’t run a decent 10 miler 30 minutes after eating, you are eating the wrong food
all quotes from Frank Trammel, a very talented long distance runner, and also at one short brief period of my life (2 years), my cross country/track distance running coach at Louisiana Tech University. I owe Frank a great deal of credit for helping me know the difference between running and competing, knowing that races are about how well you trained, not how much you have to suffer, and lastly, how to get faster and stronger simply by doing negative intervals. I attribute my good health from Frank’s influence. Best Coach I ever had. And definitely the hardest working coach, who could still compete at the highest level while holding down a coaching position at University. They say, you only get faster when you run against someone faster. Frank was just so much faster than any of us. But he made you want to do better, becomes better. The first summer training camp right after High School, 1982, I was “invited” to train with about 30 other distance runners, who would later become LA TECH runners. That first day at a large camp owned by a local doctor, a good friend of the university, Frank handed out a piece of paper, a pen, and an envelope.
” I want you to write down on this piece of paper what you think you will achieve over the course of the next year. 1500, 5K, 10K. Put your name on it, seal the envelope and pass it to me. Don’t tell me what your numbers are. I’ll keep these in my office and next year, when we return to camp, we will open these envelopes and see just what we have accomplished together, as a team.”
Frank was an extraordinary motivator. and no nonsense. He would get on you about your grades if they were slipping. He would find you help if you were struggling financially. Frank was also a solid Christian. And that made him different to many of us who had predetermined as most freshmen do, to have as much fun as possible when leaving home. And we did have lots of fun, probably way too much fun. Frank was always there to remind us that we were not just runners, but representatives of the university and also his athletes. He made it clear “don’t embarrass me”! He was a stand up guy. I was fortunate to know him. Did not drink, did not smoke, Loved God, Loved His Wife, Loved his Kids, and Loved coaching and developing his team into incredibly tough and resilient, resourceful men, who could learn to appreciate that so much of this world can be achieved with a goal and hard work. Thanks Frank.
God Bless America
I made a superb 5egg omelet this morning, complete with carameled shallots, ham, red bellpepper, avocado & cheese cooked in bacon fat – enough to nosh on for 2-3 meals. YUM!
Cooking from scratch, using much of what’s depicted in the above chart, along with a catch of whole spice and herbs beats restaurant food ANY day. Just sayin.
I don’t actually like omelets as much as scrambles, where I get all the flavors everywhere in the dish.
Shallots are the BEST! They have both garlic and onion flavor at once – I cook them with eggs and also with small tenderloins when I can get them.
My scrambles don’t have avocado and use butter instead of bacon fat, but pretty similar – instead, mushrooms – and towards the end before the beaten eggs go in, I fill the top of the pan with fresh baby spinach, drizzle it with olive oil, cover, and get it wilted and mixed in.
I must say I prefer most vegetables and fruits cooked instead of raw. I make organic steel-cut oatmeal and cook all the berries I add to a compote so they don’t cool down the warm oatmeal. Nuts and a little cream.
Since I paid no attention to the old food pyramid, I’ll do the same for this one.
That should even you out sufficiently. ☺️
I’m still paying for buying the lowfat craze when I was young and dumb in the 80s.
I’ve been a crazy conservative for years. But it was only a little more than a decade ago that I realized the damage the food pyramid did to me and to the people i love. Discovering how the food pyramid came about was my first deep dive into anti government conspiracy theories.
This is excellent news!
The only problem that I see is the taste of “affordable” fruits and veggies. Of course those fruits and veggies would be purchased at a Walmart type store. Their fruits and veggies taste like nothing. Walmart does carry organic but even those lack flavor. Our much more expensive Publix’s has better quality but then again is quite expensive. A farmers market or grow yourself seem to be the only option but that takes time.
In conclusion… they did not touch on this at all……they will have to make affordable whole foods taste GREAT again.
Local farms have fresh blueberries and strawberries in season.
Raspberries are my favorite so I grow them myself.
Right now in winter there’s nothing but the inferior grocery store ones – but the flavor does come out when I cook them.
Grow and can your own food, as much as possible.
Fresh air. Sunshine. Exercise.
The bonus before enjoying all year long the best food you will eat.
Yes indeed. I have can every year as the fall season approaches .. with enough left over to give away to friends, selected neighbors, and fam.
Common sense, right. You eat these foods, you feel better.
On the occasions I eat junk food, now that I’m older, I feel blotted and sluggish. The body telling me don’t eat this junk.
Finally!! Woot! I love it. I have been eating this way for years. Watch that many health issues start to decline that Big Pharma, Doctors, and Insurance companies push as normal occurrences such as ADHD, high cholesterol, heart disease, certain skin conditions, cancers, etc. The list goes on and on.
*Everything* in moderation ….. and we’ll all be fine – just my 2 cents. Oh yes, I’m 83 yo. Everyone needs to stop telling us what to do and what not to do… It’s insane – again my 2 cents…
Inverting and putting grains at the bottom is excellent. This is definitely a more paleo friendly diet, so overall health will improve if people go by this new pyramid.
Amen!
We have a decent sized farm with 200 or so head of cattle. One change would help. A relaxing of the USDA approval for individual cuts sold by private treaty sales by processors who do not have a full time USDA inspector on site. Our preferred processor that we use only allows us to sell the animal (or portion of the animal) prior to slaughter, then requires that owner to pick up their portion at the processor. They are already inspected, just not on a daily basis. I’m not sure how places like Sam’s Club, local butchers in grocery stores, etc work around that requirement? It’s been years since I purchased from one!
Also, Sous Vide cooking is a fantastic way to cook lesser cuts of beef and get great results. One of my favorites is round steak. Normally too tough without beating it with a tenderizer and still awfully tough, cooked 24 hours Sous Vide at 132 degrees it is actually quite tender and very flavorful. Roasts are also very good cooked Sous Vide.
I love my slow cooker…. start with some olive oil and onions, cook a bit then I add a ham steak cook 3 or more hours.. then my carrots, potatoes 🙂 yum and easy
Great tip, Moo.
Another great method I’ve found for tenderizing round steak and other tougher cuts is to soak it for 24 hours in buttermilk in the refrigerator.
It’s especially effective if you can then cook it low and slow in the oven, but stove-top will work fine, too.
If I don’t have buttermilk I’ll dredge the meat in whole wheat flour and brown it a little before adding some chicken or vegetable broth and then doing a low/slow cook. The flour helps tenderize it and makes its own gravy.
The added bonus to both methods is that all the vegetables (and potatoes if desired) can be added in about half way through to produce a delicious one pot wonder.
Oh lord. I’m making myself hungry!
From what I have read, a buttermilk marinade is good for taking some of the “gamey” flavor out of game meat, like venison.
Yes, I’ve also found that to be so.
Likewise for cod or rockfish that’s not gone off, but also not smelling like fresh out of the water, although it needs to be soaked for less time than overnight.
Full fat Buttermilk works great as a soak for venison. The acid helps break down strong connective tissue and the fat adds a bit of richness to cut the gamey taste.
We’ve been blessed to live where deer are abundant, and almost everyone in my family hunts.
What a fabulous line full of truth, Sundance.
“If you don’t think about food as medicine for your body, eventually medicine will become your food.”
Hope you don’t mind that I put your words on the next t-shirt I make for myself!
Why can’t I find American raised lamb anymore? And the price of Australian lamb is astronomical. At one time American leg of lamb was a popular New Year’s dinner staple.
Ranchers still have it here.
Try Amos Miller up in PA or Grassland Beef.
They both ship.
I get mine from goodranchers.com
My wife and I, in our 60’s, joined a small workout club about 15 months ago. We do exercises with free weights, kettle bells, barbells, and body weight exercises using straps for balance. Each of us has lost 80 pounds.
One of the extra benefits is nutrition counseling from actual doctors in the field. They showed us how things like the food pyramid and “daily recommended whatever” were turned into public policy by special interest groups doing the payola racket with the various government agencies. A lot of those policies were dangerously wrong (surprise!)
It all fit right in with what I was learning from CTH. Funny how that works.
In general, most doctors know very little about nutrition.
I think they get an hour or 2 on Nutrition in Med School.
And, that “nutrition” they learn is sorely lacking.
There are several ways to learn the truth about actual nourishment for our bodies.
My naturopath has passed on; but his Optimal Nutrition series and other random videos he so lovingly recorded are offered for free now.
Look up David Getoff on Rumble.
Whole grains are at the bottom of the list. Meat is king!
Went to the store the other day..eggs $1.49 a dozen, bread $2.00 a loaf, gallon milk $2.59
Today at store I bought flat-iron steaks at $9.99 per pound, which is cheap, considering they are usually $16.99 pp
a package of fettuccine was $1.25, Alfredo sauce $1.49.
week ago got a roast for $6.99 pp
Prices on some stuff has come down. Will it ever get to where it was in 2020? Probably not.
I drink soda rarely, but my husband drinks it, and $9.99 per 12 pack of Mt. Dew is outrageous. Best to buy it when they have the buy 2/get 3 free sale. Cheese I buy when it’s on sale only. Tuna at .89 a can is cheap. A head of lettuce at $2.20 is ridiculous. 2020 you could get 2 heads for a buck. And, of course, everything is smaller in size than it used to be
While this is a good recommendation for most people, the government shouldn’t recommend particular diets. People have different dietary needs.
The government should just stick to food safety and encourage affordability and availability.
Meat servings are provided in the gay French metric system. How do you expect red-blooded Americans to know how many “kilos” we weigh? Show us the respect we deserve and use ounces and pounds, RFK!
https://www.omnicalculator.com/conversion/kg-to-lbs-converter
I love whole grains. I just can’t eat without bread. 😉
Grains and all starches turn to sugar in our gut.
Cancer thrives off of sugar.
And it has a high glycemic index – ramps up the insulin. Diabetes producer
Whole grains far less high glycemic, particularly ones with no added sugar.
Not as easy to find commercially but When Pigs Fly has one. I keep the loaves in my freezer and toast slices.
And I always used whole milk.
This is wonderful! Finally they get something of quality to the food pyramid. Thanks RFK and all those working with him. First the vaccine changes and now the food. Nicely done.
Of course NYS Governor says those in NYS will not see any changes to the vaccine schedule there. NY will keep the old ones which is exactly what everyone who lives in NYS predicted. I wonder if parents there can refuse now the vaccines they don’t think their child should have in consulting with their doctors. The schools in NY require quite a few more than the 11 the CDC recommends. Should be interesting how this all goes in the blue states.
Alcohol guidance just says “consume less”. not helpful or empirically based advice!
I think what they mean in regard to That particular guideline is: NO BUDWIESER! ‘;]
This is only tangentially related to the food pyramid, but it is health related. If you have insulin resistance (AKA metabolic syndrome), type II diabetes or are obese and are highly motivated to reverse or cure these conditions, I highly recommend you get the book (or check out from the library) “The complete guide to fasting (heal your body through Intermittent, Alternate-Day and Extended Fasting)” by Jason Fung, MD.
I have had all three conditions and am working on eliminating the two remaining. It is surprisingly easy to water fast for extended periods, once you get past a couple of days. In my opinion, this is the CURE for type II diabetes.
I just watched this episode of South Park last night. South Park S18E02 Gluten Free Ebola
It is the episode where they flip the pyramid and put meats and fats on top and grains at the bottom.
I searched through the comments to see if anyone else recalled that epic episode!
“Let food be they medicine and medicine be thy food.”
This is a saying attributed to Hippocrates and is believed by historians to have been made somewhere around 460 BC.
I absolutely love the fresh twist placed on it here by Sundance, and agree with other posters that it’s not just great wisdom, but it’s a merch-worthy idea for a sweatshirt or t-shirt.
I also absolutely love the graphic showing wheat and grains at the very bottom of the food pile, where it should be. It belongs right there with sugar.
I don’t usually get to read through an entire thread before posting, but this is one of those rare occasions when I’ve been able to do that, and I love seeing how savvy are so many of our fellow treepers to true nutritional wisdom.
I’m especially ‘jealous’ of those for whom wild game is abundant and readily available and of those who can raise and harvest their own beef and poultry. Such a blessing.
And for those who seek foods and agricultural products not easily (if ever) found in stores, I highly recommend checking out Azure Standard at AzureStandard.com. They have drop points pretty much all over the nation and are my go-to source for too many things to name here, but which enable me to affordably and consistently cook from scratch. I would also include that they were among those targeted back when farms, healthy food producers and other natural nutrition resources were being so mysteriously burned to the ground a few years back. Their main warehouse was torched and they managed to survive, so my loyalty to them is steadfast and well earned.
Kudos to Secretary Kennedy, that keto-loving carnivore, for his hard work and strong commitment to making this country healthy again. God bless, guide, support and defend him and his team, and President Trump for having the wisdom to appoint him.
I’m hungry!
Amen.
Great News!
Currently in Japan
Food her is amazing!
You can tell the the difference IMMEDIATELY compared to US.
1) No “food coma” sleepiness 15 min after eating.
2) No gas or indigestion
3)BMs are smaller & pass easier
4) You actually taste the flavor of the food.
This includes all types including McDonalds.
A ham/cheese sandwich from a 7/11 is better than 80% of the processed crap at the local grocery store.
The chemicals in US food no doubt attributes to the all-out assault on Americans immune systems.
Yeah! I’ve read about the way they do school lunches there, and it’s all fresh and freshly cooked every day. By law!
The standard American diet is a killer!
I absolutely love this. 🧡