In his last weeks in office, former President Biden issued a Fact Sheet on the food system investments achieved by his administration. The Fact Sheet divides the achievements into several categories. Building new markets and income for farmers and ranchers Modernizing the middle of the agriculture

With much fanfare, the FDA released its proposed rule for a new front-of-package summary of the Nutrition Facts panel.  I’ve written about the history of this previously. Of all the options tested (Food Fix had the best summary), the FDA picked this one—not my first choice. Why not?  I don’t think

So much is happening on the alcohol frontier these days that it is getting hard to keep up.  Let’s start with the multiplicity of reports on alcohol and health arriving one after another.  I’ve written about the NASEM and Surgeon General’s reports recently.  I’ve also written recently about their

A reader, Maria Birman, alerted me to this new report in Lancet Diabetes & Endocrinology from the 56-member Commission on the Definition and Diagnosis of Clinical Obesity.  The commission recommended shifting the definition and diagnostic criteria for obesity away from the BMI and instead

Today is Martin Luther King Day and it’s worth thinking about what he stood for as we inaugurate a new President. Nneka M. Okona writing in Food & Wine tells us: Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.’s Taste in Food Shows Us Who He Was: Sunday suppers at home and simple meals in restaurants give insight