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Trump taps Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to head Health and Human Services

11/14/24 4:37 PM By Rebekah Alvey

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."

USDA invests in food security, produce prescription projects

10/23/24 6:01 AM By Rebekah Alvey

USDA is funding $46 million in projects through its Community Food Projects Competitive Grants Program and Gus Schumacher Nutrition Incentive Program.

California could soon lead the nation with ‘food as medicine’ legislation

06/12/24 7:20 AM By Brad Hooker

The Legislature is advancing a proposal to make California the first state to permanently enshrine into law a movement known as food as medicine.

Opinion: New qualified health claim on yogurt elevates dairy in healthy diets

06/07/24 11:50 AM By Stephanie Goodwin Roberta Wagner,

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.

VA hospitals to test produce prescriptions

04/24/23 4:02 PM By Philip Brasher

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.

Food-as-medicine advocates urge increased funding

03/29/23 6:23 AM By Jacqui Fatka

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.

Booker highlights food as medicine programs as farm bill priority

12/13/22 6:27 PM By Jacqui Fatka

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.

Washington Week Ahead: Spending deadline looms, Vilsack announces more climate projects

12/11/22 10:00 AM By Philip Brasher

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.

White House corrals $8B in commitments to address hunger, nutrition

09/28/22 6:40 AM By Steve Davies

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.

Washington Week Ahead: White House set to unveil national food strategy

Hill agenda includes CR, Global Food Security Act

09/25/22 11:26 AM By Philip Brasher

The Biden administration hosts the first White House conference on hunger and nutrition in more than 50 years to debate a national strategy that officials will unveil ahead of the Wednesday meeting.

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