The USDA just released a massive report on what's now considered healthy

The USDA, one of the government organizations responsible for setting up dietary guidelines, just came out with its major five-year report on guidelines for healthy eating.

The guidelines affect what goes into school lunches and government programs that promote healthy diets.

The recommendations made some major changes in the way they address protein of all kinds as well as added sugar. Interestingly, the recommendations specifically advised teen boys and adult men to eat less protein in the form of meat, poultry, and eggs.

The new guidelines now recommend that women aged 19 to 30 on a 2,000-calorie-a-day diet eat 46 grams of protein a day, while men of that same age eat 56 grams of protein. That's almost the same as the previous set of guidelines, released in 2010, which recommended 5 1/2 ounces of protein foods (in a chicken breast, that's about 42 grams of straight protein).

As for sugar, the new guidelines limit sugar to only 10% of daily calories. Same goes for saturated fat, which is now also limited to 10% or less of daily calories.

The guidelines shift the focus more from individual food groups to "healthy eating patterns," to integrate that healthy eating into everyday life. Of course, the USDA still promotes eating a variety of vegetables (green, red, orange, the whole spectrum) and whole fruits.

The new guidelines also remove past restrictions on cholesterol, which was previously limited to 300 milligrams.