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Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. on Wednesday unveiled new dietary guidelines that include an inverted food pyramid with a focus on fruits, vegetables, proteins, dairy and healthy fats and less emphasis on whole grains.

The conspiracy-pushing health secretary, while flanked by other Trump administration officials in the White House, highlighted the “upside down” aspect of the new food pyramid as it appeared on a screen behind him.

The new food pyramid is the first from the U.S. Department of Agriculture since the original model was updated to “MyPyramid” in 2005 and later replaced by “MyPlate,” which included about half a plate of fruits and vegetables, another half plate of grains and proteins, and a serving of dairy.

Christopher Gardner, a nutrition expert at Stanford University, told NPR that he was “very disappointed” that the new model includes sources of red meat and saturated fat “at the top, as if that were something to prioritize.”

“It flies in the face of decades and decades of evidence and research,” he said.

Health experts, including the American Heart Association, have advised against excessive consumption of saturated fats because of their association with an increased risk of heart disease.

On Wednesday, Kennedy declared that the Trump administration was “ending the war on saturated fat,” although the new guidelines continue the long-standing recommendation that people limit their saturated fat consumption to 10% of their daily calories.

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Critics on social media mocked RFK Jr. and his friends for the inverted food pyramid, and one Bluesky user quoted a line of Dee’s from “It’s Always Sunny In Philadelphia.”

Another user simply wrote that it is “not a structurally sound pyramid.”

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