A Digest on Healthy Eating and Healthy Living
Throughout 2022, food and nutrition were often in the spotlight, perhaps most notably with the White House Conference on Hunger, Nutrition and Health. The national strategy that emerged from the event (the first of its kind since the original conference in 1969) aims at ending hunger and increasing healthy eating and physical activity by 2030. While the plan includes many promising approaches, such as expanding nutrition assistance programs and covering medically tailored meals under Medicare, our Department of Nutrition experts also noted some major omissions,