The Trump Administration is Making America Healthy Again

America is in the middle of the worst chronic health crisis in our nation’s history, but the Trump administration is laying the groundwork for revitalization—which is rooted in the real, nutritious food grown by our farmers and ranchers.

Every five years, the U.S. Departments of Agriculture (USDA) and Health and Human Services (HHS) are required by law to jointly publish a report containing nutritional and dietary information and guidelines for the general public. This report, known as the Dietary Guidelines for Americans, is meant to provide science-based advice on what to eat and drink to promote health, reduce risk of chronic disease, and meet nutrient needs.

However, since the very first report was published in 1980, our nation’s diet-related chronic disease rates have risen to pervasive levels.

The CDC reports that over 40 percent of the roughly 73 million children (birth–17) in the United States have at least one chronic health condition, and three-quarters are not eligible for military service due to their health.

These numbers are unacceptable. Poor health inhibits the ability of our citizens to live healthy and happy lives, especially when harmful habits are ingrained from childhood.

By amending the Dietary Guidelines for Americans, 2025–2030, President Donald J. Trump is putting the well-being of Americans first—where it should have been all along. After decades of misguided nutritional advice, he is also delivering on his promise to reorient government based on common sense, science-backed policy.

From today's Coffee and Covid by Jeff Childers:

For decades, the pyramid wasn’t just advice; it was an orthodoxy with a cash-flow spigot. It shaped school lunches, hospital trays, airline meals, food labels, supermarket configurations, and dinner-table guilt— all enforced by gold-star committees and white-coated prestige. Then came pandemic whiplash —masks, closures, shots, reversals, walk-backs— and whatever residual trust remained simply burned off like chicken bouillon left too long on the stove.

If you consider why the old food pyramid survived as long as it did, you’ll instantly recognize it was because of entrenched interests— namely, Big Food. Not only does the new system —which drives vast government expenditures in the form of school lunch programs, SNAP, and a legion of food subsidies— emphasize real food, it called for zero sugar for kids up to ten years old. (The previous limit was two years.)

The political disruption extends far beyond Big Food. Consider just the sudden vanishing of the war on meat. What happened to that particularly pestilential WEF mantra? For years, red meat was immoral, carcinogenic, cardiac-canceling and climate-criminal. Remember how collective cow flatulence was perpetually on the brink of literally destroying the planet? Now, all of a sudden, steak and whole milk are back on top, and this time nobody seems to be chaining themselves to a Chick-fil-A.

https://www.coffeeandcovid.com/p/pygmalion-thursday-january-8-2026

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