FDA's 2025 new food rules serve up a win-one-lose-two deal for human health.

In case you missed it, the food pyramid is being replaced by the new Food Compass, and the FDA's recommendations now reflect this new set of rules.

The Food Compass was mostly created by folks at Tuft's University. Key personnel behind this include one of the world's most vocal promoters of seed oils, cardiologist Darioush Mozaffarian. It's ostensibly going to help consumers decide what to eat, and the stated goal is to increase food "quality." It's supposedly going to help reduce the consumption of "ultra-processed food." And it's supposedly data-driven.

But it's not data-driven. It's expert opinion--and the experts were supported by a grant from Danone food group, makers of Silk and other plant-based ultrarefined food substitutes with extremely long shelf lives. According to their own website, a bunch of people got money from Danone, and chose the "attributes" to develop their "scoring system." It's not based on rigorous testing of any kind.

In the win column, whole foods like oranges can now be labeled healthy. Although I think fruits are probably the least healthy of all whole food groups, given their massive sugar/calorie to nutrition ratio.

On the loss column, we are still going to be scared away from saturated fat. So whole foods like steak will not be considered healthy. As per the AHA's longstanding narrative. Also in the loss column, we are told to seek out "oil."

I estimate there is 40-50 x more seed oil in the food supply than healthy oils like olive and unrefined coconut. So that recommendation amounts to promoting seed oils.

Of course, legacy media are getting behind this, since it allows for business as usual. Here's the latest article, from Scientific American.

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-fda-is-changing-what-foods-can-be-called-healthy/

You'll notice in their headlines they promote fruit and "whole" grains. That TLDR keeps most people from looking into details to see how this sausage is made. By the way, this particular sausage will determine where billions of dollars in federal funding go.

Legacy media can no longer be trusted to present anything other than whatever serves their own interests. But most of us who HAVE been paying attention already know this.

What's more problematic, and more insidious, is that peer-reviewed medical journals can no longer be trusted, either.

Why not? Their editors no longer review data! I've needed to understand a broad base of basic sciences to get to the truth. My books and advice are all grounded in unassailable principles of chemistry, biology, physiology, pathology, and more. Follow me if you want to untangle yourself from the web of scientific misdirection.

Web page where you can see funding sources for the new food compass: https://sites.tufts.edu/foodcompass/about/

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