The new guidelines effectively flipped the long-standing food pyramid to prioritize meat, dairy and vegetables over refined foods and grains. The guidelines also endorsed consumption of saturated fats that contradict established nutrition advice to limit them. The American Medical Association praised the guidelines, which shifted standards for school lunches and food stamps, for its straightforward advice on eating whole foods. Between a lesson on how to cook crispy salmon cakes, Kennedy inserted talking points about why Americans don’t eat enough seafood. “They reflected the same kind of mercantile impulses that had put Fruit Loops at the top of the food pyramid.”