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Podcast: Building Your Foundation: A Functional Podcast
Episode: The Upside-Down Pyramid: The 2025 Guidelines & The Return to Real Food
Description: Episode Description:Are we finally seeing the end of the "low-fat" era? In this episode, we dive deep into the newly released 2025–2030 Dietary Guidelines, described by experts as one of the most meaningful shifts in federal nutrition policy in decades.Join us as we break down Dr. Nancy Palermo’s insights on the new "upside-down food pyramid"—a framework that flips the script on conventional advice by prioritizing protein, healthy fats, and nutrient-dense whole foods over processed grains. We explore how these new guidelines align with the time-tested principles of the Mediterranean diet and wh...