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FDA’s Nutrition Initiatives | FDA

The FDA is prioritizing its nutrition initiatives to ensure people in the United States have greater access to healthier foods and nutrition information we can all use to identify healthier choices more easily. Increasing the availability of healthier foods could improve eating patterns and, as a result, improve everyone’s health and wellness.

At its Conference on Hunger, Nutrition and Health on September 28, 2022, the White House released a National Strategy to end hunger and increase healthy eating and physical activity by 2030, so that fewer consumers experience diet-related diseases like diabetes, obesity and hypertension. The strategy includes several FDA

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Healthy food unaffordable for millions of poorer families | News

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The UK’s poorest households would have to spend half of their disposable income on food to meet the costs of the government’s recommended healthy diet, according to new data released today by the Food Foundation.

Its Broken Plate report found the impact of the cost of living crisis on the most deprived fifth of the population was far more extreme than on the highest earners, with the top 20% only having to spend 11% of their income on food to meet the Eatwell Plate guidelines.

The Food Foundation said the situation had worsened from the previous year, when the poorest

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Ultraprocessed foods dominate Americans’ diets. Here’s what they’re doing to us : Shots

Above, an unprocessed apple. Ultra-processed foods are made from industrially manufactured ingredients that have been extracted from foods, processed, then reassembled to create shelf-stable, tasty and convenient meals.

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Above, an unprocessed apple. Ultra-processed foods are made from industrially manufactured ingredients that have been extracted from foods, processed, then reassembled to create shelf-stable, tasty and convenient meals.

Meredith Rizzo for NPR

This morning, while tidying up my office, I found an open box of packaged coconut and chocolate cookies that I’d bought sometime last year. The “use by” date