Americans will be advised to eat more butter, meat and other foods high in saturated fats under new government dietary guidelines expected as soon as this coming week.
Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has long been a proponent of the carnivore diet, and he’ll push for Americans to get out their own steak and butter knives.
Mr. Kennedy said the Department of Health and Human Services, with the Department of Agriculture, will issue new dietary guidelines “that are common sense, and stress the need to eat the saturated fats and dairy, of good meat, of fresh meat and vegetables.”
Speaking at the National Governors Association Summer Meeting at the end of July, Mr. Kennedy said the new guidelines would likely be issued at the end of October, although it’s not clear if the action will be delayed due to the government shutdown. An HHS spokesperson did not respond to an inquiry from The Washington Times.
Mr. Kennedy said the new guidelines would influence the federal government’s meal programs in public schools, the military and prisons, where nutrition is notoriously absent from the menu.
“It will change diets in prison populations, in the military and elsewhere,” Mr. Kennedy said. “It’s a new opportunity to reboot and change the diets in our schools.”
The details are still under wraps, but the new guidelines are likely to discard the federal government’s current recommendation that adults and children get fewer than 10% of their daily calories from saturated fats. A 2022 government survey found fewer than one-third adults met the guideline.
