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Shining Light on Farm & Food Policy for 20 Years.
Tuesday, April 01, 2025
Sen. Roger Marshall, a Kansas Republican and doctor by training, has long advocated the "food is medicine" concept, the idea that diet plays a role in preventing and curing disease. Now he has emerged as one of the leading congressional champions of the “Make America Healthy Again” movement launched by Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
President-elect Donald Trump has nominated Robert F. Kennedy Jr., a vocal critic of U.S. food systems and federal nutrition scientists, to lead the Department of Health and Human Services and take on the "industrial food complex."
In this joint opinion piece, Roberta Wagner, senior vice president of regulatory and scientific affairs with the International Dairy Foods Association, and Stephanie Goodwin, director of nutrition policy with Danone North America, explore the benefits of the new qualified health claim for yogurt.
Department of Veterans Affairs healthcare systems in Houston and Salt Lake City will provide veterans with fresh fruit and vegetables as well as nutrition coaching to test whether produce prescriptions can improve the health of people with diet-related health conditions.
Data from pilot projects is already pouring in on the positive impact on health with food prescriptions and medically tailored meals. Now groups are gearing up to make the case for continued funds within the farm bill as well as tapping into the larger pool of health care dollars to change the trajectory of the nation’s declining health and increase the scale of food-as-medicine projects.
A Tuesday hearing at a Senate Agriculture Subcommittee illustrated a bipartisan priority to incorporate the concept of "food as medicine" into the upcoming farm bill.
Congress faces a Friday deadline for keeping the government funded, while the Agriculture Department this week will announce a second round of projects that will test approaches to developing and marketing low-carbon commodities.
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.
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