We all have one food in common: milk, our first meal. If it can happen, #breastmilk is the most perfect food: the ultimate #personalizednutrition plus joy + love. Of course, no breast for me and I’m OK!
We got milk + real science at EatingInAmerica.co. Eg, the best hydration: milk, water, Powerade?
Thanks for this alert and important read. Neubert and Merrigan describe how the symbiotic relationship of anti-hunger-advocates and farmers on SNAP funding has been seen as key for stable SNAP funding and decreasing food insecurity.
Outstanding!
I like Schmidt's strong takes on the need to help people shift self-blame for excess unhealthy weight (#obesity) from themselves to the real culprits, Big Food. See both articles about #ultraprocessed food #addiction: doi.org/10.1111/add.... and issues.org/ozempic-era-...
Mozambique Food Pyramid, photographed by Ric Bayly in Nampula Province, Mozambique in 2018. The Portuguese-language poster's Pyramid depicts foods native to Mozambique and is translated "Food Pyramid for Diabetes."
USAID saved lives, elevated the US. No more. Doing #usaid funded research on child growth stunting due to a food mold toxin in Mozambique in 2018, found this local version of the old 1992 US #foodpyramid. US credibility in #nutrition hurt in 2025. The 2025 Pyramid won’t go far. > eatinginamerica.co.
If esteemed nutrition guru Marion Nestle can cite South Park on the topic of RFK Jr.'s upside down food pyramid, by golly so can I, darn it. A hoot and amazingly prophetic in the context of the new Dietary Guidelines for Americans: southpark.cc.com/video-clips/...
The new Dietary Guidelines for Americans Food Pyramid is laid out on a linen table cloth with champagne flutes to toast the alcohol industry's big Guidelines win. Two cows look on. One is upset there is a steak on the table.
The corks are popping at the alcohol lobby with the 2025 Dietary Guidelines for Americans’ removal of drink limits and any mention of how cancer is strongly linked to alcohol. Big win in a tawdry process. See www.eatinginamerica.co/p/the-food-p....
The worst food environment in American history and half+ food we eat is lab designed by Big Food so we eat too much. Biology and our available food controls what we eat. We need our government's help in this, WaPo! That is why we have elected leaders. See www.eatinginamerica.co/p/the-food-p...
Thanks reporters Astor and Callahan! But you were kind to RFK/Rollins! They trashed the duly appointed scientists' report two years in the making and secretly bought a new super quick one to match their personal beliefs. Preordained science is not science! See www.eatinginamerica.co/p/the-food-p...
Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert Kennedy plays billiards in the Oval Office with a rack of what are the foods in the new Food Pyramid of the 2025 Dietary Guidelines.
The 2025 #dietaryguidelines are finally here. It took time to write a new pseudo-scientific report to replace the one that didn’t match the conclusions #rfk wanted. Even preordained science takes time. Great progress on sugar and #ultraprocessed food but bad news elsewhere. See eatinginamerica.co.
A Mickey Mouse PEZ dispenser package with three packs of candy, one of them containing Red Dye Number 3.
PEZ is a dye-hard: A year away from the FDA's Red Dye #3 ban in food, as Eating in America (www.eatinginamerica.co/p/die-hard-a...) has reported, and Mickey Mouse is still spitting out the candy with the carcinogenic color. Why did Walt Disney permit this? PEZ targets children.
A woman is throwing out food from her refrigerator. As it lands in the trash it turns into dollar signs.
Food “expiration” dates – so confusing. Eating In America tells you what they mean and how to cut #foodwaste. In the future in CA just 2 labels: “Best if used by,” a rough guide to freshness, and “Use by,” about a spoilage timeframe. Neither label is about safety. More at EatingInAmerica.co.
Covid came and Americans cut their home #foodwaste in half – from 200 lbs to 100 lbs - for a year, proving we can do a lot to cut our $62 per week of food waste for a family of 4. More on how you can make sense of food “expiration” dates to save money and the environment at EatingInAmerica.co.
Secretary of Health RFK, Jr. presides over a meeting of the next Dietary Guidelines Advisory Committee, making its recommendations. On one side sits a carrot, apple, and broccoli. The apple says "Eat cows!" On the other side sit a deer, cow, and pig. The cow says "Eat fruit!"
RFK, Jr. & USDA Secretary Rollins may present the 2025 U.S. #DietaryGuidelines Wednesday. No matter tomorrow, it’s time for a Guidelines reboot and to address #ultraprocessed food in the 2030 Guidelines Scientific Advisory Committee, which will be named within 2 years by the Trump administration.
Never more scared by my research than while writing “The macro problem of microplastics.”
Scared? DuPont knew Teflon and its PFAS was a health risk in the 1940s but hid it. Now PFAS and #microplastics are everywhere. Breathed, ate, and drank - today: eatinginamerica.substack.com/p/the-macro-....
Trump sabotages the work of the #CDC, but the CDC's ongoing survey - #NHANES - of our health and nutrition is critical to our well-being: eatinginamerica.substack.com/p/the-feds-g....
Bye, bye Miss American Pie? CDC data revealed that 1/3 of Americans on a given day eat #fastfood.
A Ball mason jar with a little bit of red wine left in it stands next to a very fine bottle of 2007 vintage Grgich Hills Estate Cabernet Sauvignon.
My thanks this Thanksgiving were for #TrueScience, #PublicHealth people, and the #HealthyFood we could serve. And thank you.
PS - And for the very fine wine someone brought. So good that when decanted to a mason jar because of a broken cork, people who didn't know, still thought it was excellent!
Dr. Matilde Touvier, Director of the Nutritional Epidemiology Research Team at the French National Institute for Health and Medical Research, addressing the targeting of children by ultraprocessed food manufacturers.
From Lancet rollout of #ultraprocessedfood papers, Dr. Matilde Louvier: "...we look at the core classic signs of #addiction, loss of control, intense cravings... in children, over 1 out of 10 are showing the full clinical sign of addiction, but to these highly rewarding ultra-processed foods." Thks!
Dr. Carlo Monteiro, who coined the term "ultraprocessed" in 2009, introduces the three paper Lancet UPF series.
Today Lancet rolled out 3 papers on ultraprocessed food. Journal Editor Richard Horton: "...our food systems have been infiltrated, distorted, disrupted, and deformed by transnational corporations that have prioritized profit over health, market share over the environment." Yes!
Trump has a GLP-1 deal and use will be expanded. It looks to be a win for health in America, but Zepbound and Wegovy cannot be the long term solution to the obesity epidemic. That can only come through curing our sick food environment. Read or listen to eatinginamerica.substack.com/p/trumps-glp...!
The devil will be in the details with Trump's deal for expanded Medicare and Medicaid coverage and lower self-pay prices for GLP-1s like Zepbound, Wegovy, Ozempic, and the coming pill versions of Zepbound and Wegovy. But it does look to be a win for health in America, as more people will have access to what some, with good reason, call a miracle drug. But GLP-1s cannot be the long term solution to the obestity epidemic. That can only come through curing our sick food environment. Read or listen to https://eatinginamerica.substack.com/p/trumps-glp-1-price-deal-is-great!
A single-dose vial of Zepbound tirzepatide for self-injection with a separate syringe. Zepbound is priced lower in vials than in injection pens.
#GLP-1 drugs are miracle workers but the best solution to #obesity and overweight and reducing their damage to our health? Curing our sick food environment.
Heavy government regulation is required to protect Americans from corporations who have been allowed to harm our health for their profits.
1/ Today, the president announced he’s withholding funds for SNAP until the shutdown ends—not because the money isn’t there, but to use people’s empty stomachs as leverage.
While the White House walked back the threat, the #SNAP benefits are still reduced and delayed and 41M Americans may go hungry. If only President had gone hungry one day in his life. #FoodPantries in Biloxi, Cape Cod, Nebraska feel the fear. EatingInAmerica.substack.com
#PEZ (for kids!) was the only food I found w/ Red Dye No. 3: on the U.S. banned list. #Obama was the last President honored with his likeness on a PEZ dispenser. Wait until Trump finds out! “Forget the Nobel Peace Prize! Make sure I’m on a PEZ dispenser!” eatinginamerica.substack.com/p/die-hard-a...
A giant, defiant bottle of cola stands with crossed-arms on a field of colorful children's cereal. The bottle says "I'm keeping my caramel coloring. It doesn't cause cancer at these quantities."
Caramel coloring is by far the biggest #ArtificialDye by volume. Made with sugar + ammonium, possibly carcinogenic in humans per a 2007 federal toxicology analysis, WHO, and California, but not on #RFKjr hit list. It is huge in Coke, Pepsi, other colas. eatinginamerica.substack.com/p/die-hard-a...
AI generated RFK, Jr. being licked by cows, favored sources for his raw milk and saturated fat. The cows are saying "I have raw milk..." and "I have lots of saturated fat..."
RFK setting the U.S. #DietaryGuidelines?
Uh, dead brain worm, likely eaten; recs raw milk, red meat, #saturatedfat for health; eats “a ton of vitamins”, no unprocessed fruits or veggies; ate so much tuna & perch his blood had 10x mercury limit and caused memory loss. EatingInAmerica.substack.com.
Big Food, depicted by a hot dog and a bottle of cola, each with an evil smile and cash in their hands, are holding the shoulders of a smirking politician.
#MAHA helped Trump with RFK, Jr., voters, and influencers. But MAHA has been rebuffed in most goals by #BigFood, America’s biggest lobby, and agricultural interests, as I have reported in EatingInAmerica.substack.com. The TheGuardian.com has a great exposé of how Big Food is controlling food policy.
The new California ultraprocessed food law is a good step forward. It defines UPF while Trump and RFK, Jr. are delaying UPF action. UC scientists have 3 years to name UPFs to be banned from school food. More on this solid plan at eatinginamerica.substack.com/p/the-new-california-ultraprocessed.
Also, SNAP and school lunch cuts will hurt many farmers. With consumer unhappiness a threat, Trump is trying to increase hires of migrant farm workers with work visas in order to keep farm production up and prices from zooming. And farmers will be happy if they can hire more lower-wage migrants.
