Policy recommendations offer strategies to close ‘significant gaps’ in nutrition security

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Policy recommendations offer strategies to close ‘significant gaps’ in nutrition security

What we eat and drink across our lifespan greatly impacts our heart and brain health. The American Heart Association, the leading voluntary health organization devoted to a world of longer, healthier lives for all, today published a new statement outlining policy solutions to promote equity in access to nutritious foods throughout the lifespan. The policy statement, Strengthening U.S. Food Policies and Programs to Promote Equity in Nutrition Security, published in the Association’s flagship journal Circulation, sets a new agenda to help make healthy foods within reach for all. These include working through many programs already in place to provide more nutritious foods to underserved populations.

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