Praise for proposed US Dietary Guidelines

Across the globe, countries’ dietary guidelines are roundly criticized, or praised, by food and health advocates. With the release of a draft of the US’s most recent Dietary Guidelines text, the Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine (PCRM), a public health advocacy organization, were happy about the decision made by the committee of experts to emphasize a reduction of red and processed meat consumption in favor of beans, peas, lentils and other plant-based sources of…