A new food pyramid is in the works, with revised dietary guidelines focusing on whole foods, according to U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
In a recent interview with The Blaze, Kennedy said he is infusing common sense and nutrition into the new version of the food pyramid and condensing it into an easy-to-use format.
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) announced last month that they were conducting a line-by-line review of the Scientific Report of the 2025 Dietary Guidelines Advisory Committee, released last year by the prior administration.
“When we came in, the Biden administration had created new nutrition guidelines, but they were unworkable, and they were supposed to go into effect January 20. I asked President Trump to give us permission to kick the ball down to March,” Kennedy said in the interview. “The document that we got from the Biden administration was 453 pages long. Oh, it’s completely useless to a mother or to a school. And what I said is, ‘We want a three-page document that essentially says you should be eating whole foods.'”
He added that the guidelines for schools will not be a dictated menu but rather a broad list of categories that school food providers can choose from based on what is locally available.
He envisions the school lunch program providing hot foods prepared on-site under the direction of a school nutritionist, as opposed to the pre-packaged, plastic-wrapped foods served in many school cafeterias.
“We have a generation of kids who are swimming around in a toxic soup right now,” Kennedy said last fall in an interview on Fox News.
“We should have nutritionists in every school in this country like they do in Japan and in other nations that are supervising the food production and the nutrition of those kids and have much healthier kids,” Kennedy told The Blaze.
“It is the dawn of a new day,” USDA Secretary Brooke Rollins said in a press release last month. “The Trump-Vance Administration supports transformational opportunities to create and implement policies that promote healthy choices, healthy families, and healthy outcomes. Secretary Kennedy and I have a powerful, complementary role in this, and it starts with updating federal dietary guidance.
“We will make certain the 2025-2030 Guidelines are based on sound science, not political science. Gone are the days where leftist ideologies guide public policy,” she added.
“We are going to make sure the dietary guidelines reflect the public interest and serve public health, rather than special interests,” HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said. “This is a giant step in making America the healthiest country in the world.”
The Texas legislature has also taken up the mantle of the Make America Healthy Again movement. In February, Senator Lois Kolkhorst filed SB 25, which would establish a Texas Nutrition Advisory Committee to examine the link between ultra-processed foods and chronic disease and develop nutritional and health guidelines for Texans.
The bill also includes requirements for physical education in schools, nutrition curricula, and food labeling.
SB 25, one of Lt. Governor Dan Patrick’s top priorities for this legislative session, was passed in the Senate and has now moved on to the House for consideration.