Happy & Healthy with Amy
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Happy & Healthy with Amy
The Contradictions, Culture Wars, and Double Standards: What The 2025 Dietary Guidelines Reveal
Why are the new dietary guidelines pushing full-fat dairy and red meat? Is saturated fat actually a healthy fat? And is Dr. Oz wrong for referring to alcohol as a "social lubricant"?
In this episode, Amy exposes the conflicting nutrition advice, impossible math, and double standards, and helps you make sense of the chaos—so you can eat for your brain, body, and future health.
What to Listen For
- (03:54) – Why the Dietary Guidelines Advisory Committee and their 400-page report was disregarded
- (05:45) – RFK Jr.’s quote: “We are ending the war on saturated fats” and what nutrition science reveals
- (07:23) – Healthy fats vs. essential fatty acids—and what’s wrong with how the guidelines defined them
- (09:14) – Saturated fat ≠ essential fatty acid and why that distinction matters for brain and body health
- (11:05) – Math problem: 3 servings of full-fat dairy per day + prioritizing protein make it nearly impossible to stay under 10% sat fat limit
- (13:18) – Lactose malabsorption stats by ethnicity and why nutrition science must take health equity into account
- (15:04) – The MIND diet’s take on fats
- (16:38) – The culture war: carnivore vs. vegan and how that influenced the new guidelines
- (19:42) – Joe Rogan’s carnivore diet experiment and why its biggest advocate abandoned it later
- (26:40) – Dr. Oz, alcohol as a “social lubricant,” and what the guidelines ignored
The saturated fat "controversy" reveals just how much industry, culture wars, and politics are shaping our national dietary guidelines.
As you navigate your health journey, focus on evidence-based strategies like increasing fiber, prioritizing omega-3s, and limiting saturated fat to support brain and metabolic health.
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