What role can food and nutrition play? We believe there are at least three important ways diet can help alleviate the public health crisis.
How your diet can help flatten the curve
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Publications
We Need Better Answers on Nutrition
The U.S. is overdue to establish an institute devoted to research on the top cause of poor health.
Our Food Is Killing Too Many of Us
Improving American nutrition would make the biggest impact on our health care.
Food is medicine: How US policy is shifting toward nutrition for better health
In this new year, millions of Americans will make resolutions about healthier eating. In 2019, could U.S. government leaders further resolve to improve healthier eating as well, joining public health experts in seeing that food is medicine?
Focusing on nutrition is paramount to getting a sound, bipartisan farm bill out
The farm bill is finally headed to conference. To three former Secretaries of Agriculture, this would normally be cause for celebration. Instead of appreciating the farm bill’s progress, however, we have found ourselves becoming distressed. Debate over this monumental piece of food and agriculture legislation has neglected a crucial subject: nutrition.
Want to fix America’s health care? First, focus on food
The national debate on health care is moving into a new, hopefully bipartisan phase. The fundamental underlying challenge is cost – the massive and ever-rising price of care which drives nearly all disputes, from access to benefit levels to Medicaid expansion.