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The Untold Story with Martha MacCallum

Jillian Michaels' On America's Nutrition Crisis

The Untold Story with Martha MacCallum

FOX News Podcasts

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4.6775 Ratings

🗓️ 9 January 2026

⏱️ 19 minutes

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Summary

Health and wellness expert, celebrity trainer, and host of the FOX Nation Special, Toxic: America's Food Crisis, Jillian Michaels, discusses the recent changes to the food pyramid and how it will impact government food assistance programs. She breaks down why the adjustments can enable Americans to adopt better eating habits. Jillian explains the pushback from industry groups and the misinformation campaigns being used to maintain the status quo.   Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Welcome to the Untold Story Podcast, everybody.

0:13.2

I'm Martha McCallum, and one of the real untold stories that is now being revealed,

0:19.8

thanks to the Make America Healthy Again movement

0:23.2

is why Americans, millions and millions of them, are unhealthy and sick and obese.

0:31.6

And I just think it's really an exciting time to be reevaluating all of this and to have a lot of leadership and fresh thinking

0:40.2

on all of these issues from the people involved with this Maha movement. So I'm thrilled to have

0:47.0

Jillian Michaels with me today. She's up, of course, I mean, who doesn't know what Jillian

0:51.9

Michaels is, but celebrity trainer, host of the

0:55.1

podcast, keeping it real with Jillian Michaels, and also the host of toxic America's food crisis,

1:01.4

which you can find on Fox Nation, which gives you a lot of background into how all of this started.

1:07.2

Gillian, welcome. Thank you. It's great to have you here. So the big news this week is the announcement

1:13.5

of a new food pyramid. I mean, I can still picture the food pyramid from when I was in grade

1:18.2

school and it was like six to 10 servings of bread a day, essentially. And then it went down

1:25.2

and got small. And I think like meat was at the bottom, right?

1:29.7

So now you're kind of flipping it on its head. Give us a sense of what the food pyramid changes

1:36.9

and what difference it will really make to regular people. A huge one. Not the difference you think.

1:43.2

This isn't actually about nutrition instruction

1:46.4

for the average person. It's a business plan. Basically, the food pyramid guides hundreds of billions

1:53.7

of dollars of our tax money, our subsidies, and it takes that money and it pays for our kids,

2:00.1

public school lunches. It feeds our military.

2:03.2

It's what directs food assistance programs like SNAP and women and children. So many decades ago,

2:10.2

the initial food pyramid was designed with the best intentions. The idea was how do we essentially

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