US dietary guidelines have made us ill — let's change them already

Our nation's top health officials are sounding the alarm on federal nutrition policy. Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and FDA Commissioner Dr. Marty Makary both recently criticized the government's longstanding dietary advice — particularly the USDA "Food Pyramid," now called MyPlate — for failing to promote better health in America.

“We have let the industry tell us as a government what’s healthy and what’s not healthy,” Dr. Makary warned in a recent interview, calling for an overhaul of the pyramid.