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- New Yorkers should be served healthy food and beverages at state-run facilities
A bill for consideration in New York State will make it easier to eat healthfully in state facilities and programs.
- Increase access to healthy food in the Farm Bill!
As Congress considers the 2023 Farm Bill, lawmakers have an opportunity to make improvements to nutrition security and health equity.
- Tell companies to stop serving our kids dessert for breakfast
Millions of children rely on school meals as a primary source of healthy food, but many breakfast products that appear in school meals have as much added sugars as desserts.
- Tell Congress to extend school meal waivers
If waivers expire on June 30, millions of children will lose access to school and summer meals.
- Added sugars shouldn’t be a secret at restaurants
How much added sugar is in an Aloha Pineapple Smoothie? The FDA should require chains like Jamba Juice to say.
- Tell Coke and Pepsi: Honor your pledge and stop introducing new sugar bombs!
Coca-Cola and PepsiCo have publicly pledged to reduce calories from added sugars in their beverage lines by 2025, but both continue to introduce and promote new, stunningly high-sugar beverages.
- Make sure our kids have enough time to eat
Please take action and urge your representatives to cosponsor the Healthy Meal Time Act of 2022 (H.R. 6526).
- Tell Pepsi: Quit pushing soda for breakfast
PepsiCo knows all too well that consuming too much sugar is dangerous, yet the company recently teamed up with IHOP to promote a sickeningly sweet pairing: a limited-edition Pepsi Maple Syrup Cola with a serving of pancakes drenched in maple syrup.
- School meals shouldn't be sweeter than our kids
Tell USDA: Our kids are sweet enough.
- Tell the FDA to ensure access to trustworthy nutrition information online
Online food ordering has exploded in recent years, but consumers purchasing foods online do not always have access to the same information that's available in-store.
- Remove dangerous chemicals from our school foods
The USDA must ban dangerous chemicals from school foods now.
- Urge Congress to strengthen food labeling requirements
The Food Labeling Modernization Act will strengthen food labeling requirements to promote public health and nutrition.