[Comment] New dietary guidelines for Americans: a recipe for poorer health

00:00 - 16 Feb 2026

On Jan 7, 2026, the US Departments of Health and Human Services (HHS) and Agriculture (USDA) published the 10th edition of the Dietary Guidelines for Americans (DGA).1 The new DGA are consequential, shaping personal nutritional advice and federal programmes until 2030. Yet the new DGA upended a rigorous, transparent process developed over decades and substituted a conflicted and compromised process that produced contradictory and often unscientific guidelines.