5 Best Things About the 2015-2020 Dietary Guidelines for Americans Recipe

You heard the news. The long-awaited Dietary Guidelines for Americans were released yesterday. The five-year process, along with the DGA committee itself, has been plagued with controversy — which undoubtedly contributed to the delay. The biggest debate was the interference of Congress who put a stop to the inclusion of environmental sustainability in the report — claiming that it was “out of scope.”

Now some folks are critical that the guidelines didn’t go far enough (such as not making declarative statements to “eat less meat”). While others, primarily Paleo devotees and authors like Nina Teicholz who wrote The Big Fat Surprise, do not support the limit on saturated fat (less than 10% of calories per day). They want us to…