U.S. Senators Marco Rubio (R-FL) and Cory Booker (D-NJ) introduced the SNAP Nutrition Security Act to help improve SNAP recipients’ diet quality and collect data on SNAP purchases to identify what products taxpayer dollars are being spent on.
USDA’s proposed updates to strengthen school meal nutrition standards come just one year after the USDA’s 2022 transitional standards for school meals
National Strategy Emphasizes Critical Importance of “Food as Medicine” Efforts
Dariush Mozaffarian, Heidi M. Blanck, Kathryn M. Garfield, Alissa Wassung & Ruth Petersen. Nature Medicine (2022)
Each year, millions of people in the U.S. die from diet-related chronic health conditions, get sick from foodborne illnesses, or go hungry.