What to Know
Just in case you forgot all about Robert F. Kennedy Jr.‘s Make America Healthy Again initiative, he finally put that White House role of his to use by putting out a new food pyramid. The White House quietly released the recommended food guidelines on X (formerly Twitter), and people couldn’t help but note a few things about it, including that the inverted pyramid is shaped like pizza.
Maybe that’s just the hungry girl in all of us, who wants more of the carbs that the new food pyramid says we should scale back on. The idea of the guidelines in the food pyramid is that, according to the White House’s post, Americans should be eating more “real food” and eating healthier, starting in 2026. Most people can get on board with the idea of healthier eating, but no one is going to tell me that the graphic posted on X doesn’t look like a slice of pizza, so there’s that.
The new food pyramid from the Trump Administration is really just common sense.
BREAKING: The Trump Administration announces the 2025-2030 Dietary Guidelines for Americans, putting REAL FOOD back at the center of health. 🇺🇸https://t.co/tkGF01onpm pic.twitter.com/1zTLSKdE7R
— The White House (@WhiteHouse) January 7, 2026
After the White House shared the food guidelines that are new as of 2026, users posted their thoughts regarding what RFK Jr. says people should be eating in order to be healthy. One person posted an image of the old pyramid versus the new one and wrote on X, “If they care about our health, why haven’t they banned ultra processed food?”
The official new food pyramid is literally a South Park joke. pic.twitter.com/mt6pylu4OR
— America Uncovered (@USUncovered) January 7, 2026
Another wrote, “The official new food pyramid is literally a South Park joke.” They shared an image of the pyramid next to a screenshot from a South Park episode where the original pyramid that has been shown to Americans for years was essentially flipped upside down.
That’s not quite what RFK Jr. did, but it’s kind of close to it.
Really, the new food pyramid and guidelines show us what most already know. Fresh fruits and vegetables, protein, and healthy fats are good. Sugar and too many carbs are bad. We’ve all been conditioned about the nutritional value on packages of food enough to know how much of something we should be eating and how much is not super healthy. The food pyramid shows that, but it’s not really anything new for most people.
USDA food guides have changed over the years.
Big changes are coming to America’s dinner table.
— Jim Grimes (@jimgrimes) January 7, 2026
The USDA’s 1992 food pyramid pushed carbs and grains — and during that era, obesity rates climbed. Now Washington is flipping the pyramid, urging more protein and healthy fats and less sugar and processed food. Officials say it’s… pic.twitter.com/7kup7OQg5S
The original food pyramid that most people learned about in school if they grew up in the ’90s featured a much larger serving of carbs and grains than protein. The MyPlate initiative of 2011 showed a visual aid in the form of a plate divided into sections to show how much protein, grains, vegetables, and fruit individuals should have.
RFK Jr.’s Real Food plans of 2026 include a different approach, including his brand new upside down pyramid. The idea, per the website, seems to be that Americans’ health starts with the food they eat rather than medicine they could take. Much like RFK Jr. I am no educated doctor and I have no formal training that makes me qualified to work for the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, but something tells me good health starts with healthy eating habits and necessary medications. Wild concept, I know.
