Dietary Guidelines for Americans 2026

Its RFK Junior and he has some very weird theories about health. I'm not saying the food triangle is wrong, just that I'd prefer the UK version.

Weird is wonderfull!  I highly rate the guy (even though I got his initials wrong)
One of my dislikes about the British version is the amount of carbs it feels are ok? There is no requisite for carbs in our diet, zero. Our body makes all the carbs it needs.Carbs are what make us obese (and Britain does have an obesity problem, albeit not as bad as the US) I wonder when ours was last updated?

The world would have a problem straight away if we all gave up eating carbs. I eat plenty of carbs and am nowhere near obese, may be 1/2 a stone over my teenage weight.

Are carbs essential though? Many people live and thrive, some on a keto diet, without them.Ask the question of AI "Are exogenous carbs essential for human life? and you may be surprised?People  can flourish on animal fat and protein from the muscle meat of ruminant animals only.

Turn your question on its head and ask whether "animal fat and protein " are essential to human life. Clearly they're not or there wouldn't be so many elderly vegans in this world. You're just posing questions that give you the answers that you want to justify your diet, whilst ignoring the eating styles of other people.

My last sentence wasn't a question, it was a statement. It may not be in agreement with the British food recommendations  but it is true nonetheless! Carbs are non essential but take up a major part of the food recomendations.