“The Biden administration's dietary guidelines were awakened anti-American fraud. My bill puts an end to this left-wing nonsense, restoring transparency and accountability in the process, and ensuring that our dietary guidelines are based on real science rather than bureaucratic activity.”
Jackson, along with Sen. Roger Marshall (R-KS), introduced the Dietary Guidelines Reform Act of 2025.
The legislation aims to dispose of the Biden administration's protein recommendations and promotion of beans, lentils and other plant-based proteins over meat-based options.
The bill is as follows:
- Extend the dietary guidelines for Americans (DGA) reports every 5 to 10 years, unless evidence-based breakthroughs require updates
- Put the DGA process into federal rules to ensure opinions from stakeholders
- Prevents the inclusion of unrelated topics such as tax, social security, federal food aid, food labeling, socioeconomic status, race, religion, ethnicity, culture, and more.
- Requires members of the DGA Committee to disclose all related financial and non-financial conflicts
- Dietary guidelines need to be developed based on evidence-based nutritional science
- Design dietary guidelines to improve long-term health outcomes
Health expert Nina Teikoltz I wrote it OP-ED for Wall Street Journal Despite protein as the basis for childhood growth, American children often fail to meet basic requirements.
Proteins are the basis of childhood growth, brain development and immune function. However, data from the 2015-16 National Health and Nutrition Survey showed that nearly 15% of 9-14 children in America and almost 15% of 15% of teenagers did not meet the median government's minimum protein standard.
As you age, your muscles become less responsive to proteins, increasing muscle mass, avoiding osteoporosis, and becoming more difficult to combat disease. However, there are no individual protein guidelines for the elderly. Elderly people have not cleared the current bar. A 2019 survey of nearly 12,000 adults aged 51 and over found that half of those, over 70, did not meet the recommended daily protein levels.
Teicholz noted that plant-based proteins often lack at least one of the nine essential amino acids that make up a “complete protein.”
Teicholz asked the National Academy of Medicine to increase the recommended protein intake from 0.8 grams of protein per kilogram of body weight per day to 1.2-1.6 grams.
USDA Director Brook Rollins and Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Director Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Mid March I said Their division is conducting line-by-line reviews of DGA reports issued by the Biden administration.
Rollins I said“Secretary Kennedy and I have a strong and complementary role to this, starting with an update to the Federal Diet Guidance. We will ensure that the guidelines for 2025-2030 are based on sound science, not political science.
“We intend to ensure that dietary guidelines reflect public interest and serve public health, not special interest,” Kennedy said in writing. “This is a huge step towards making America the healthiest country in the world.”
“Despite decades of dietary guidelines for Americans, our citizens have become sick and obese, but taxpayer dollars continue to fund this chaotic, broken process, people.”
Sean Moran is a policy reporter for Breitbart News. Follow him with x @seanmoran3.
