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2025-2030 Uncompromised DGA

In an unprecedented move, the Trump administration has now published a 2025–2030 Dietary Guidelines for Americans that is insufficient to guide federal policy and diverges from the science-based recommendations of the Dietary Guidelines Advisory Committee.

In addition to creating confusion, these changes may directly impact at least 1 in 4 Americans through federal nutrition assistance programs that are required to align with the DGA, like the National School Lunch Program.

Recommendations based on the preponderance of evidence were provided by the 2025 Dietary Guidelines Advisory Committee (DGAC), a group of independent nutrition experts tasked with reviewing the latest nutrition research and providing the United States Departments of Agriculture (USDA) and Health and Human Services (HHS) with evidence-based recommendations. While the Departments are not legally required to adopt all DGAC recommendations, the 2020 DGA included “nearly all” of the 2020 DGAC’s recommendations and the Departments provided a justification for any key divergences, as recommended for all DGA editions by the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine.

In this gap, the Center for Science in the Public Interest and the Center for Biological Diversity created the Uncompromised Dietary Guidelines for Americans. The purpose of The 2025-2030 Uncompromised DGA is to demonstrate what the federal government’s overarching Guidelines for healthy dietary patterns could have looked like if the Trump administration had not strayed from its mandate to publish clear, detailed, evidence-based Guidelines. Policymakers, advocates, health professionals, and consumers can use this integration of the 2025 DGAC’s science-based recommendations to guide public health policy and individual decisions.

The Uncompromised Dietary Guidelines for Americans, 2025–2030

Policymakers, advocates, health professionals, and consumers can use this integration of the 2025 DGAC’s science-based recommendations to guide public health policy and individual decisions.

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More about the Dietary Guidelines for Americans

What are the Dietary Guidelines, and why do they matter?

If someone asked you what you’ve heard about the Dietary Guidelines for Americans, would you know what to say? You’ve probably heard of the Food Guide Pyramid (which hasn’t been used in about 15 years), and you might have recently heard something about the Guidelines being the cause of America’s health woes (not true). We’re here to set the record straight.

How are the Dietary Guidelines developed?

We all have had the experience of trying to figure out what foods we should eat to stay healthy. Is a glass of wine okay? What about eggs, olive oil, red meat, or whole milk? And if it’s so confusing to decipher all that for just yourself and your family, how does anyone figure it out for the whole country? We’ll introduce you to the experts who handle that work and tell you how they do it.

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No, RFK, Jr., the Dietary Guidelines aren't the problem

Secretaries Brooke Rollins and Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., claim they want to “make Americans healthy again.” Yet, instead of leveraging one of the strongest tools available to improve public health—the Dietary Guidelines for Americans (DGA)—they’re undermining it with misinformation.

Why the Dietary Guidelines should keep saturated fat limits

The science is clear: Saturated fat consumption raises heart disease risk. Changing saturated fat recommendations in the Dietary Guidelines could be detrimental to public health and the millions of Americans who rely on federal nutrition programs.

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Dietary Guidelines should be led by science—not politics

Political interests harm the integrity of the Dietary Guidelines for Americans—the foundation of school meal programs, SNAP, WIC, and other necessary nutrition programs for American families. From former Dietary Guidelines Advisory Committee members Mary Story, PhD, RD, and Eric Rimm, ScD.

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All about the DGA

While some have actually blamed the Dietary Guidelines for public health problems, the truth is that Americans have not, or do they now, eat according to the Guidelines. That's why we support policies to help Americans eat healthy diets that are more in line with the government's generally sensible advice.

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Endorsements

The following organizations and past Dietary Guidelines Advisory Committee members have endorsed the Uncompromised DGA.

Dietary Guidelines Advisory Committee members

William H. Dietz, M.D., Ph.D. (1995)

Shiriki K. Kumanyika, Ph.D. (1995, 2000)

Meir Stampfer, M.D., Dr.P.H. (2000)

Lawrence Appel, M.D., M.P.H. (2005, 2010)

Eric B. Rimm, ScD (2010)

Mary Story, PhD, RD (2015)

Barbara Millen, DrPH, RD (2015)

Steven K. Clinton, MD, PhD (2015)

Marian L Neuhouser, PhD, RD (2015)

Cheryl Anderson, PhD, MPH (2015, 2025)

Carol Byrd-Bredbenner, PhD, RD (2025)

Fatima Cody Stanford, MD, MPH, MPA, MBA, FAAP, FACP, FAHA, FAMWA, FTOS (2025)

Deirdre Tobias, ScD (2025)

Christopher Gardner, PhD (2025)

Edward Giovannucci, MD, ScD (2025)

Valarie Blue Bird Jernigan, DrPH, MPH (2025)

Andrea Deierlein, PhD, MPH, MS (2025)

Organizations

Acterra

Balanced

Better Food Foundation

Brighter Green

Earthjustice

Eat for the Earth

Food Empowerment Project

Food Revolution Network

Friends of the Earth

Healthy Kids, Happy Planet!

Hunger Free America

Interfaith Public Health Network

Kids in Nutrition

National Association of Nutrition & Aging Services Programs

National Education Association

National WIC Association

Nutrition For Families

NutritionFacts.org

Physicians Association for Nutrition (PAN) International Foundation

Plant-Based Advocates

Planted Society & Eat for Impact

Society for Nutrition Education and Behavior

True Health Initiative