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Shining Light on Farm & Food Policy for 20 Years.
Thursday, December 12, 2024
In this opinion piece, Amy DeLisio, CEO of the Dairy Council of California, discusses the significance of educating producers and consumers about Food is Medicine strategies and argues that they are critical to a healthy aging population.
In this opinion piece, Sarah Gallo, Vice President of Product Policy for the Consumer Brands Association, responds to a recent op-ed by Nancy Brown at The American Heart Association (AHA) by outlining the decade of proactive and innovative work the food industry has done alongside the FDA to ensure Americans are fully educated on what is in their food.
In this opinion piece, Nancy Brown, CEO of the American Heart Association, makes a case for swift FDA implementation of front-of-pack nutrition labeling and its potential to reduce healthcare costs while increasing healthier choices and products from consumers and manufacturers.
One year after the first White House hunger conference in 50 years, there are wins as well as areas of needed focus to meet the goals laid out by government and private entities.
Bipartisan momentum is building to scale up and tweak the Gus Schumacher Nutrition Incentive Program (GusNIP) and enhance the offering of the healthy incentive pilots funded at $20 million in the 2008 farm bill.
A $250 million research initiative on using food as medicine is among $8 billion in private-sector commitments being announced today in conjunction with the White House Conference on Hunger, Nutrition, and Health.
The next version of the Dietary Guidelines for Americans needs to take a close look at the effectiveness of low-carb diets, most commenters told the federal agencies putting together the 2025-2030 DGA.
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