Some experts say the new US dietary guidelines have ‘conflicting messaging’. Here’s who will be affected most

It will take years for changes to take effect, but children who eat school meals and seniors served by Meals on Wheels will feel the DGA ripple effects

Most Americans ignore the country's dietary guidelines, but millions will be directly affected by upcoming changes to these recommendations.

On 6 January, after months of proclamations about seismic improvements to the country's dietary recommendations, the US Department of Health and Human Services and the US Department of Agriculture released those updated Dietary Guidelines for Americans (DGA). This document - once visually presented to millennial schoolchildren as a food pyramid and to today's zoomers and gen Alpha as a segmented lunch plate - synthesizes the latest nutritional research and offers revamped eating advice every five years.