With the recently introduced Healthy Meals, Healthy Kids Act, Congress has an opportunity to build upon the success of the Healthy, Hunger-Free Kids Act and consider lessons learned from the COVID-19 pandemic to continue to strengthen and expand the reach of child nutrition...

The COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted the importance of good nutrition and the impact of nutrition insecurity, magnifying the health disparities long-faced by underrepresented communities due to systemic inequities that have manifested in reduced access to health care,...

The Health Equity and Accountability Act is an omnibus piece of legislation introduced each Congress by the Congressional Black Caucus, Congressional Hispanic Caucus and the Congressional Asian Pacific American Caucus. HEAA encompasses a wide range of issues that impact our...

Nearly 9 million women of childbearing age are not covered by the Break Time for Nursing Mothers law, the federal provision that requires break time and a private space for breastfeeding employees to pump during the workday.Passage of the Providing Urgent Maternal...

The COVID-19 pandemic and the increasing rate of natural disasters continue to reveal dangerous gaps in the emergency care systems serving families with breastfeeding babies. Infants are a highly vulnerable population, yet caregivers are too often left without access to...

The COVID-19 pandemic has illuminated the need to provide healthy school meals, especially given its disproportionate impact on people with diet-related diseases and communities of color. Investing in school nutrition programs to help establish life-long healthy eating...

The bipartisan, bicameral Treat and Reduce Obesity Act (H.R.1577, S.596) has been reintroduced for the 117th Congress. TROA would expand the providers and programs that could deliver intensive behavioral therapy for obesity within Medicare Part B and would provide...

Senators Susan Collins (Maine) and Gary Peters (Mich.) and Representatives Robin Kelly (Ill.) and Fred Upton (Mich.) recently introduced the Medical Nutrition Therapy Act of 2021 (S. 1536/H.R. 3108), which would expand coverage of medical nutrition therapy (MNT) in Medicare...