For 15 years, I’ve watched patients struggle with government nutrition advice that didn’t make them feel good—until now.
The new guidelines maintain many familiar recommendations—they still advise keeping saturated fat under 10 percent of daily calories and limiting added sugars and sodium. However, the emphasis has shifted in ways that reflect what many clinicians have found actually works in practice: building meals around “real” foods with ample, individualized protein amounts (about 1.2 grams to 1.6 grams per kilogram of body weight per day) and sharply curbing highly processed products and refined carbohydrates.
