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policy1 month ago•4 min saved

Rollins Champions Real-Food, Affordable Diet Under 2025-2030 Guidelines

USDA Secretary Brooke L. Rollins highlights in a Hill op-ed the Dietary Guidelines for Americans 2025-2030, emphasizing eat-real-food, affordable, and flexible dieting, with steps to broaden access via SNAP stocking standards, updates to federal feeding programs, and the RealFood.gov initiative; the guidelines aim to make healthy options available to all households, noting meals can cost as little as about $3 each and outlining support for rural communities and farm families.

via USDA (.gov)|

#dietary-guidelines-2025-2030 #nutrition-programs #policy

health1 month ago•7 min saved

Wellness Demystified: Six Simple Rules for a Sustainable Healthy Life

Public-health expert Ezekiel J. Emanuel argues against wellness hype and offers six practical shifts: replace extreme trends with steady movement (about 150 minutes weekly), eat with others and cook real food while limiting ultra-processed snacks, ditch obsessive habit-tracking and screen-time rules, view wellness as just one part of a full life not the sole focus, and build cognitive and social richness through hobbies and diverse mental activities to sustain healthy habits with pleasure and consistency.

via The Guardian|

#health #hobbies #movement

health-and-nutrition1 month ago•3 min saved

RFK Jr.'s New Food Guidelines Spark Debate and Grocery Store Changes

U.S. Secretaries of Agriculture and Health and Human Services announced new Dietary Guidelines for Americans 2025-2030, emphasizing the importance of eating real foods like protein, dairy, vegetables, and fruits, while reducing processed foods to combat chronic diseases and improve national health.

via USDA (.gov)|

#chronic-disease #dietary-guidelines #health-and-nutrition

health-and-fitness2 years ago•4 min saved

The Truth About Processed Foods: Separating Fact from Fiction.

The demonization of processed foods is unnecessary as there are different levels of refinement in our supermarket shelves. Sports nutrition products are ultra-processed foods that provide quick simple energy, while "real food" fueling like bananas or dried fruits contain essential nutrients but may cause gastrointestinal distress during exercise. The choice between the two comes down to personal preference, tolerability, and affordability. In training, fueled is best, and as intensity increases, so often does the need for more simple-sugar fueling strategies.

via Slowtwitch|

#health #health-and-fitness #nutrition