The 2025 Dietary Guidelines for Americans (DGA), which were released in January by HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and USDA Secretary Brooke Rollins, reaffirm longstanding limits on saturated fat and sodium. And they continue to recommend fruits, vegetables, and whole foods and that people use plain water as a primary beverage. That’s the good part.

Unfortunately, the new Guidelines also push animal protein, butter, full-fat dairy, and beef tallow.

That harmful advice contradicts the evidence-based recommendations of the 2025 Dietary Guidelines Advisory Committee report, a two-year scientific review by 20 nutrition experts and federal scientists that included thousands of public comments and seven public meetings. (Learn more at cspi.org/DGAC.)

The USDA and HHS dismissed most of the advisory committee’s recommendations, which they charged had an “ideological bias” because they had been framed through a health equity lens that evaluated the science “through considerations of race, ethnicity, culture, and socioeconomic status.”

Instead, the secretaries put the Guidelines’ scientific review in the hands of nine scientists—seven with ties to the meat, dairy, and/or supplement industry. The result: Guidelines that spread blatant misinformation and that are, at best, confusing and, at worst, damaging.

It is difficult to overstate how impor­tant the Guidelines are. They touch the lives of one in four Americans. In addition to providing nutrition guidance for us all, they are the foundation for federal nutrition programs (including school meals and SNAP), federal education programs, and the food served at many federal buildings. (Visit cspi.org/DGAreach to learn more.)

And now, for the first time, they can’t be trusted.

That’s why we at the Center for Science in the Public Interest, along with the Center for Biological Diversity, have created the Uncompromised DGA. They are what the Guidelines would have looked like had the government heeded the advisory committee’s report.

You can trust the Uncompromised DGA, which have been endorsed by more than 20 organizations and 17 members of previous Dietary Guidelines Advisory Committees. So can policymakers, advocates, and health professionals.

CSPI remains committed to defending the role of science in public policy and to ensuring that nutrition guidance serve the public interest, not special interests.