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Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the current Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), has launched a new food show that focuses on the questionable dietary guidelines he issued earlier this year.

“The Real Food Show,” which can be watched on the HHS website, debuted last week. The meals presented on the program fall in line with Kennedy’s so-called “upside-down” food pyramid, which emphasizes eating meats, dairy products, and fatty foods.

When that dietary guideline was launched in January, many critics noted that its focus on those foods could be harmful to many groups of people, as they are drivers of cardiovascular disease, diabetes, obesity, and other health issues.

Despite these concerns, Kennedy — who has neither a medical nor professional dietary-related background — stood by his version of the food pyramid.

“When we published the dietary guidelines, there was immediately sort of a good reaction, but also a little trepidation from the public and from critics saying that this food is a lot more expensive than the ultra-processed food that we’ve been eating. And that’s not true,” Kennedy said ahead of his first show.

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Notably, food prices overall have increased under the Trump administration over the past year, with the most recent Consumer Price Index Report (CPI) indicating that costs overall have gone up by 3 percent — including an increase in milk by 6.6 percent and ground beef by 12.4 percent, two staples that are featured in Kennedy’s upside-down pyramid.

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