It’s Time to Celebrate Nutrition! 🧨

ODPHP March 4, 2024

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Nutritious diets play a key role in helping individuals stay healthy throughout their lives. However, as the 2022 White House Conference on Hunger, Nutrition and Health highlighted, millions of Americans face hurdles when it comes to accessing healthy food — and far too many are at risk of experiencing diet-related diseases. To address this issue of growing concern, the Biden-Harris Administration announced a goal to end hunger and increase healthy eating and physical activity by 2030, so that fewer Americans experience diet-related diseases like…

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Network_News March 19, 2024

The Results Are In: How Nutritious Is Food in the US?

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