Food Politics

It’s not easy to figure out what’s happening on the food front in DC these days, but a lot of it does not sound good.  Here are a bunch from last week. I.  Food Bank Support. USDA stops $500 million worth of shipments of food to food banks. Food banks across the country are scrambling to make up a

The Study:  Prunes May Blunt Adverse Effects of Oral Contraceptives on Bone Health in Young Adult Women: A Randomized Clinical Trial.  DeMasi, Taylor et al.  Current Developments in Nutrition, Volume 8, Issue 9, 104417. The rationale: Oral contraceptives (OCs) may promote bone loss.  Prunes may

The United Nations has issued a digital Food Systems Thinking Guide for UN Resident Coordinators and UN Country Teams with tools and information for working collectively towards food system transformation. It is intended as a working draft.  It provides an easy mechanism for immediate feedback. You

I was interested to see this item in Politico: Diet drug boom weighs heavily on state budgets. Soaring costs of weight-loss drugs are leading some states to scrap the benefit for state employees…After Colorado’s spending on the highly effective but costly drugs classified as GLP-1s, which include

USDA and HHS have announced an update on the dietary guidelines process. A quick recap: The Dietary Guidelines Advisory Committee released its report last year.  The agencies are responsible for writing the actual guidelines, based on that report or not. The USDA Secretary, Brooke Rollins, writes: