“Climate change is here,” said United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres in July, the hottest month ever recorded. “It is terrifying. And it is just the beginning.” Here’s the latest on a planet entering off-the-charts territory...and the difference your diet can make.
People with low incomes consume less fruits and vegetables relative to those with more resources. GusNIP addresses these issues by providing financial incentives, or subsidies, for the purchase of fruits and vegetables to people participating in SNAP. While GusNIP is an important tool for increasing equity in fruits and vegetables access and intake, the 2024 Farm Bill offers opportunities to make the program even more equitable.
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Dollar stores are the fastest-growing food retailer in the United States. If more dollar stores participated in WIC, food access could improve for millions.
CSPI appreciates FDA’s efforts to encourage manufacturers to leverage food labels for the purpose of nutrition education with this draft guidance for industry titled "Questions and Answers About Dietary Guidance Statements in Food Labeling."
In this draft guidance, FDA establishes a new category of claims for food labeling (“Dietary Guidance Statements”) and defines Dietary Guidance Statements as statements in food labeling that “represent or suggest that an individual food or food group may contribute to or help maintain a nutritious dietary pattern” and provides examples of Dietary Guidance Statements.
Things aren’t looking good for Planet Earth.
“If you look at average temperatures around the world going back to 1850, what’s most worrisome is the acceleration in climate change,” says Walter Willett, professor of epidemiology and nutrition at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health.