HHS’ RFK Jr: Upcoming dietary guidelines ‘will reflect the public interest’ not ‘special interests’

House, Senate Panels Set to Grill HHS Sec RFK Jr.

Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is scheduled to face House and Senate lawmakers in separate hearings Wednesday to discuss President Donald Trump’s fiscal-year 2026 budget and how it factors into the way he is reshaping the agency. Kennedy, taking questions from lawmakers for the first time since his February confirmation, will first testify at 10:30 a.m. in front of the House Appropriations Committee, where he will disc…

U.S. Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said the new U.S. Dietary Guidelines will be released before August and will only be four pages long, mainly guiding Americans to "eat natural foods."

What's happening with the dietary guidelines - Food Politics by Marion Nestle

I get asked all the time about what’s happening with the dietary guidelines.  I have no inside information, but am exhausted at the thought that we have to go through all this again. By law, dietary guidelines have to be re-done every five years, even though they always say the same things: eat more fruits, vegetables, and whole grains; eat less sugar, salt, and saturated fat; balance calories.  OK.  They take take more than 150 pages to say tha…

HHS’ RFK Jr: Upcoming dietary guidelines ‘will reflect the public interest’ not ‘special interests’

FDA and HHS could soon publish the much anticipated 2025-2030 Dietary Guidelines, after Trump administration appointees have examined the recommendations ‘line-by-line’ and potentially recast them to be more consumer-focused rather than aimed at policy and health officials