You butter believe this plan would be popular with carnivores and MAHA acolytes.
Foods like red meat, butter, cheese and cream have long been vilified because they are high in saturated fat, which is widely believed to raise cholesterol and cause heart disease.
Now, it may be time to break out the steak knives. Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is expected to encourage higher saturated fat consumption in the new US dietary guidelines, which are updated every five years, The Hill reported.
“HHS and USDA remain on track to release the final 2025–2030 Dietary Guidelines for Americans,” an HHS spokesperson told The Post this week while declining to share the juicy details.
Current US dietary guidelines suggest limiting saturated fat to less than 10% of daily calories, with the American Heart Association recommending an even lower intake of under 6% for most adults.
Here’s everything to know about saturated fats as Kennedy steaks his reputation on the butter-loving, bacon-hugging glyceride.
What is saturated fat?
Fats are called “saturated” when their carbon chains are “saturated” with the maximum number of hydrogen atoms.
This tightly-packed chemical structure is why saturated fats are usually solid at room temperature — and why they raise cholesterol.
The straight, rigid chains of saturated fatty acids interfere with the body’s ability to clear cholesterol from the blood.
Unsaturated fats, on the other hand, are typically liquid at room temperature due to their more flexible structure, which indirectly promotes cholesterol clearance from the blood.
They are found predominantly in plants and fish. --->READ MORE HERE
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Americans will be advised to eat more butter, meat and other foods high in saturated fats under new government dietary guidelines expected as soon as this coming week.
Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has long been a proponent of the carnivore diet, and he’ll push for Americans to get out their own steak and butter knives.
Mr. Kennedy said the Department of Health and Human Services, with the Department of Agriculture, will issue new dietary guidelines “that are common sense, and stress the need to eat the saturated fats and dairy, of good meat, of fresh meat and vegetables.”
Speaking at the National Governors Association Summer Meeting at the end of July, Mr. Kennedy said the new guidelines would likely be issued at the end of October, although it’s not clear if the action will be delayed due to the government shutdown. An HHS spokesperson did not respond to an inquiry from The Washington Times.
Mr. Kennedy said the new guidelines would influence the federal government’s meal programs in public schools, the military and prisons, where nutrition is notoriously absent from the menu.
“It will change diets in prison populations, in the military and elsewhere,” Mr. Kennedy said. “It’s a new opportunity to reboot and change the diets in our schools.”
The details are still under wraps, but the new guidelines are likely to discard the federal government’s current recommendation that adults and children get fewer than 10% of their daily calories from saturated fats. A 2022 government survey found fewer than one-third of adults met the guideline.
Current guidelines recommend consumption of low-fat or skim milk, lean cuts of meat and lower-fat cheese. They also advise using corn oil, peanut oil, safflower oil, soybean oil and sunflower oil, rather than butter or coconut oil.
Mr. Kennedy said last year he believes saturated fat found in animal meat “was demonized for decades” and blamed flawed science as well as “massive PR campaigns” that promoted margarine and other seed oil-based products, as well as high fructose corn syrup and food additives. --->READ MORE HERE
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