New dietary guidelines aim to optimize public health, not personal health.

Peter Attia discusses the newest US nutrition guidelines. “Federal guidelines on nutrition are intended to promote health and fitness at the national population level, largely as a means of reducing the burden on the healthcare system. The best way to accomplish this goal is to raise the health of those on the lower end of the population’s health spectrum, as these are the individuals who have the greatest room for improvement by relatively simple measures and are also those who would otherwise incur the vast majority of medical costs.” ~ learn more