Nutrition & Health

A new policy brief provides evidence supporting the need for an increase in the number of reimbursable meals and snacks under the federal Child and Adult Care Food Program, also known as CACFP, from three to four per child daily.

The Belden Village Apartments in Clairemont Mesa East of San Diego is home to a diverse population of older adults.

Modoc County, home to 8,500 people and tucked in the remote northeastern corner of California, has been a leader in advancing organic agriculture through its significant ranching and agronomic crop production, namely of potatoes and hay.

Nutrition Policy Institute researchers were awarded funding from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Healthy Eating Research program's 2024 call for proposals.

The Belden Village Apartments in Clairemont Mesa East of San Diego is home to a diverse population of older adults.

The Nutrition Policy Institute has launched three new Spanish-language web pages, designed to better serve our Spanish-speaking research participants and increase accessibility to and inclusion of the greater Spanish-speaking community.

Over the Thanksgiving holiday week, American consumers tossed out about 200 million pounds of turkey, according to the Natural Resources Defense Council. In fact, American consumers waste 60 million tons of food a year, statistics show.

Policy Brief • December 2024 • Download PDF (284 KB) “Ideally, we would like a reimbursement for all the meals that we serve, which is five. But if I have a secondary choice, I would want to be reimbursed four meals, breakfast, lunch, and dinner, plus either AM snack or PM snack.” – Family childcare…

Seaweed is once again showing promise for making cattle farming more sustainable.

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