Robert F. Kennedy Jr. just blasted Joe Biden’s administration and revealed that Biden’s FDA had a 453-page lobbyist Wishlist ready to become America’s official dietary guidelines the day President Donald Trump took office.
Kennedy scrapped it and started over… and what he found inside explains why Americans are so sick.
“When I came into office the first week in January of last year, we were supposed to publish dietary guidelines that had been developed by the Biden administration that week,” Kennedy told the Alex Marlow Show Friday. “They were 453 pages long, and they were crafted by lobbyists and driven by the same mercantile impulses that had put Froot Loops at the top of the food pyramid — which is not food, by the way. A food-like substance. Nutrient-free.”
Kennedy said the document was the product of years of food industry payoffs to Democrats rather than based in legitimate science.
“They were clearly written by food industry lobbyists,” he said.
He threw it out entirely.
Instead, Kennedy assembled what he called the best nutritionists in the country from top universities, locked them in a room, and told them to start from scratch.
Kennedy said he thought it would take a month. It took eleven months. The results were released January 7, 2026 as a 10-page document that replaced the Biden-era guidelines and flipped the food pyramid Americans have known for decades.
Protein sits at the top now. Red meat, eggs, full-fat dairy, beans, and whole vegetables lead the new recommendations. Highly processed foods, added sugars, artificial dyes, and preservatives are out. The low-fat dairy guidance that dominated federal nutrition policy for decades is gone.
“Today marks a decisive change in federal nutrition policy,” Kennedy declared at a White House press conference.
Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins put the stakes plainly.
“We are in the middle of the worst chronic health crisis in our nation’s history,” Rollins said. “Over 40 percent of children in the U.S. are experiencing at least one chronic health condition, and the vast majority of health care spending goes toward treating people with chronic diseases.”
The new guidelines weren’t handed down without a fight. Kennedy described each recommendation as “bloodshed.”
“We had to look at tens of thousands of scientific studies to justify every recommendation,” he said at the National Cattlemen’s Beef Association convention in February.
The impact is already spreading beyond press releases. The guidelines govern what 30 million children eat in school lunch programs every day, and serve as the basis for $142 billion in annual federal food assistance programs. Kennedy and Rollins have already petitioned 18 states to restrict SNAP benefits from being used to buy sugary drinks and sweets. Food giants PepsiCo and J.M. Smucker have announced plans to phase out synthetic dyes and artificial ingredients in response to the administration’s pressure.
Even longtime Kennedy critics acknowledged the new guidelines were an improvement. The American Medical Association backed them. The American Academy of Pediatrics called them “an opportunity to clearly explain to parents what a healthy diet for their children should look like.”
Republican Rep. Julia Letlow of Louisiana has introduced the Food Reform for Effective and Sustainable Health Act (FRESH Act) to permanently codify Kennedy’s guidelines into federal law, ensuring that future administrations cannot quietly hand the food pyramid back to lobbyists.
“The MAHA movement has fundamentally changed the conversation around food in America,” Letlow said, “forcing us to look closely at the drivers of chronic diseases and childhood illnesses.”