145 | New 2025-2030 Dietary Guidelines for Americans – What You Need to Know [Part 2]

About this episode

This episode discusses the new 2025-2030 Dietary Guidelines for Americans, focusing on protein and nutritional adequacy in vegan and vegetarian diets.

Have you seen the new 2025-2030 Dietary Guidelines for Americans and wondered if you should follow them? You may have seen talk about them on the news and social media, and don’t know quite what to believe. The slogan of eating more ‘real foods’ sounds good though, and the New Pyramid diagram seems to show that all foods - including butter, steak, whole milk and cheese – would be fine to eat and that we don’t really need to worry about the amounts eaten. But DO we need to worry? And what about the recommendations about protein and nutritional adequacy issues in vegan and vegetarian diets? Let’s talk about this. In this episode, we’ll take a deeper dive into the New Dietary Guidelines for Americans and look at 3 more KEY things you need to know about them, to inform your own health. We’ll touch on protein, what the Guidelines say about vegan and vegetarian diets, and what has been found through research. Listen in! For the list of references to this episode, please go to this episode's webpage at: https://www.plantnourished.com/blog/145-new-2025-2030-dietary-guidelines-part-two Related Episode: 119 | What To Supplement? Here Are 3 Key Nutrients Vegans AND Meat-Eaters…

People in this episode

Host: Anna Tseng MPH RD LDN

Topics covered

• Dietary Guidelines
• Nutrition
• Vegan Diet
• Vegetarian Diet
• Protein Recommendations
• Health

Keywords

• Dietary Guidelines
• Nutrition
• Vegan Diet
• Vegetarian Diet
• Protein
• Health Recommendations

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Dietary Guidelines for Americans

Products: butter, steak, whole milk, cheese

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