The federal government has released new dietary guidelines, introducing an emphasis on consuming meat and dairy and avoiding highly processed foods.

The guidelines strongly recommend against processed foods due to their sodium, sugar and food dye content. While eating excessive added sugar and sodium can be hard on your health—particularly your heart and blood sugar—we’re less worried about foods’ food dye content.

A major goal of the “whole food framework” will be “reducing health care costs,” as the US has seen surging rates of obesity, Type 2 Diabetes and other chronic diseases.

Meat can play a key role in a nutritious diet, but factors like age, personal beliefs, and health status can shape how much of it you should eat. For most healthy adults who consume animal protein, lean meat is just one part of a nutritious meal plan.

New HHS dietary guidelines take aim at ultra-processed foods, marking dramatic policy shift from previous administration's food recommendations.

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