Jillian Michaels praises new food pyramid: 'REMOVE ALL THIS JUNK'
What this video covers
A Fox & Friends segment on the new HHS dietary guidelines that largely flip the old food pyramid — promoting whole foods and protein and ending the low-fat era. After FDA Commissioner Marty Makary explains the changes, Michaels argues the real story is money: the pyramid steers hundreds of billions of dollars in federal food spending, and she credits HHS with starting to redirect it.
Key points
- Makary says the new guidelines end an era of “medical dogma” against fat, raise the protein guideline by 50 to 100%, and end the assumption that kids should be served low-fat foods like low-fat dairy.
- Michaels says the guidance is not new information, and argues HHS is “tiptoeing” for political reasons: the pyramid guides hundreds of billions of tax dollars into programs like SNAP, WIC, school lunches, and military food.
- She says the pyramid was captured decades ago by America’s wheat growers and soybean growers, which is why, in her account, the base of the pyramid was “ultra-processed garbage.”
- Michaels puts the flow at $600 billion over the past three decades to Big Food and Big Ag, and argues redirecting it will make healthier food more affordable and accessible for the nation’s most vulnerable.
- Asked what counts as ultra-processed, she points to frozen waffles, chips, soda, and the small packaged snacks packed into children’s lunches; organic, she says, is a step up because it removes many chemicals, but it carries the same calories — her rule is “eat real food.”
- Asked how to fight a pharmaceutical industry that profits from sickness, Michaels says “the ultimate rebellion is taking agency,” while arguing the government should still work for the public — lowering drug prices and making healthy food affordable — because, she says, Big Pharma lobbies to keep government working on its behalf instead.