What role can food and nutrition play? We believe there are at least three important ways diet can help alleviate the public health crisis.

The U.S. is overdue to establish an institute devoted to research on the top cause of poor health.

Improving American nutrition would make the biggest impact on our health care.

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.

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.