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,...

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...

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...