A major goal of the “whole food framework” will be “reducing health care costs,” as the US has seen surging rates of obesity, Type 2 Diabetes and other chronic diseases.

New dietary guidelines move away from Michelle Obama’s MyPlate, introducing an inverted food pyramid that’s already sparking debate.

It was the primitive pyramid that caught my eye. I wondered what this construct — it looked like a child’s version of an Egyptian structure sculpted in some dark, pebbly Play-Doh — was doing in a cookbook. But the cookbook happened to be the recently ...