Hello and welcome to Dishing Up Nutrition, brought to you by nutritional weight and wellness.

Chances are, if you listen to our show, you are interested in the topic of nutrition.

And by now, you've probably read the new dietary

guidelines published by the USDA this past January. Whether you've read through the whole guide

thoroughly or just skimmed the headlines, we're going to walk through what's changed,

what's stayed the same, and what it all means. You may be wondering how to use this

information to improve your diet and your health or if you need to make any changes at all.

Before we dive in, let's first take a minute to introduce ourselves. I'm Teresa Wagner,

a registered and licensed dietitian with nutritional weight and wellness. And with me is Brandy Burrow,

who is also a dietitian. In fact, Brandy and I work together at the St. Paul office on Mondays.

However, we don't often have a chance to chat. So I'm looking forward to discussing the new

dietary guidelines with you today, Brandy.

Yeah, it's good to be here with you, Teresa. Yeah, we don't get to chat a ton because we're both so busy seeing clients. We're just kind of ships passing in the night sometimes. That's true. Yeah,

I'll see you as I walk by your office, General. Yeah. But, you know, this is a great topic to

team up with you on because I think we're both pretty passionate about this topic.

And it's a hot topic lately.

So I'm excited to kind of dive in and hear what your thoughts are.

Clients are even asking a lot of questions about this topic.

You know, it's in the news quite a bit lately.

And they're curious.

You know, as a dietitian, what's your

opinion? As a company, you know, what's nutritional weight and wellness's stance on these

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