Today, Secretary Rollins and Secretary Kennedy released the updated 2025-2030 Dietary Guidelines for Americans. The guidelines are very positive toward animal proteins like beef, and include a recommendation to nearly double daily protein intake to 1.2–1.6 grams per kilogram of body weight depending on age and individual caloric requirements.

Sigrid Johannes, NCBA executive director, outlines the new changes below:

• Increased protein intake. The DGAs raise the recommended daily protein intake by anywhere from 50% to 100% depending on age group and individual caloric needs. This translates to 1.2-1.6 g/kg for most Americans.
• Language around red meat. For years, red meat has been blamed for a host of negative health outcomes and has been conflated in the DGAs with “processed meat,” despite representing a fundamentally different type of retail product. The updated DGAs are more careful in their language, not lumping “red” and “processed” together and specifying in the scientific appendix that “the evidence supports a recommended healthy range of dietary protein as 1.2-1.6 g protein/kg body weight for health promotion and disease prevention which can be accomplished by prioritizing high quality, nutrient and protein dense unprocessed or minimally processed animal and plant protein foods, including red meat.”
• Recognizing the role of healthy fats. Despite heavy media coverage and discussion in Washington in the final few weeks of development, the DGAs do not make any changes to the existing recommendation that saturated fats make up no more than 10% of daily calories. However, the guidelines do tout the importance of healthy fats for a variety of functions in the body, acknowledge meat as a source of healthy fats, and call out beef tallow as a good option for added fat when cooking.

This means we can eat more of that fullblood black Wagyu beef raised by us here at Prime Valley Farms LLC!

Raise your forks – Cheers to that!