The new food pyramid is lying to you

Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy Jr. unveils the department's new dietary guidelines. | Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images

If you take anything at all from the latest edition of the federal dietary guidelines, out this week, it should be… not much. Although US Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. described them as “the most significant reset of federal nutrition policy in history,” the new guidelines don’t reveal anything new about nutrition science, and most Americans can safely ignore them.