Beef Tallow Rises to the Top of the U.S. Food Pyramid
The New York Times••nation
Key Points:
- Beef tallow, once discouraged by cardiologists and federal guidelines, has gained popularity for cooking and skincare, as well as among proponents of high-fat diets.
- On Thanksgiving 2024, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. publicly promoted cooking with beef tallow as part of his "Make America Healthy Again" movement.
- The federal government has updated dietary guidelines to recognize beef tallow as healthy, signaling an end to the longstanding opposition to saturated fats.
- These new guidelines will influence national nutrition programs for the next five years, marking a significant shift in federal nutrition policy.
