Ep 209 Dietary Guidelines Part 2: Why is there protein in everything?
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🗓️ 5 May 2026
⏱️ 61 minutes
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Summary
If you’ve come across the latest dietary guidelines, a few things may have caught your attention: a big ol’ steak front and center in the new “inverted pyramid”, beef tallow and butter recommended as “healthy” fats, a declaration that the war on protein is ending. “Since when have we been at war with protein?” you may reasonably ask. In part 2 of our episodes on dietary guidelines, we get to the bottom of the latest iteration of these guidelines and investigate which changes are good (there are a few), which are bad (definitely a few there), and which are somewhere in between. Then we explore what science has actually shown about what constitutes a “healthy” diet. Tune in for a lively discussion that features lots of complaining about protein-enriched products, exasperated sighs, and a few shocking revelations about “the American diet.”
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| 0:41.2 | or wherever you get your podcasts. Restoring science and common sense. Every American deserves to be |
| 0:50.2 | healthy, but too many Americans are sick and don't know why. That is because their government |
| 0:56.8 | has been unwilling to tell them the truth. For decades, the U.S. government has recommended |
| 1:02.5 | and incentivized low-quality, highly processed foods and drug interventions instead of prevention. |
| 1:09.2 | Under the leadership of President Trump, the government is now |
| 1:12.4 | going to tell Americans the truth. Today, the White House released the dietary guidelines for Americans |
| 1:18.8 | 2025 to 2030, the most significant reset of federal nutrition policy in decades. Under President |
| 1:26.6 | Trump's leadership, common sense, scientific |
| 1:29.1 | integrity, and accountability have been restored to federal food and health policy. For decades, |
| 1:35.0 | the dietary guidelines favored corporate interests over common sense, science-driven advice to |
| 1:39.9 | improve the health of Americans. That ends today. The new dietary guidelines call for prioritizing high-quality protein, healthy fats, fruits, |
| 1:50.0 | vegetables, and whole grains, and avoiding highly processed foods and refined carbohydrates. |
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| 2:03.6 | The I'm going to be. Um, Erin. |
| 2:42.6 | Okay. |
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