The White House pushes healthy eating. It cut a landmark nutrition education program

Nutrition advocates and public health experts are mystified by the decision to eliminate SNAP-Ed, given the Trump ...
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Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program: Examining the Evidence to Define Benefit Adequacy

2 History, Background, and Goals of the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) includes among its goals to increase food security and reduce hunger by ...
The New York Times

Food Aid Program for Low-Income Women and Children Gets More Temporary Funding

An injection of $450 million for WIC comes as the Trump administration announced it would only fund partial benefits for another food aid program, the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, or ...
Medscape

Nutrition Assistance Programs Combat Cognitive Decline

Nutrition assistance programs do more than fighting hunger. They also may help guard against age-related cognitive decline. Researchers found that people who participated in the US Supplemental ...
The Washington Post

Nutrition program for Americans on food stamps at risk in GOP bill

BALTIMORE — A group of kindergartners sat attentively in a bright elementary school, ready to learn the keys to living a healthy life. One of the four main pillars, nutrition educator Karen Turner ...

Sodexo's Clinicia Sets the Standard for the Future of Patient Nutrition

Sodexo today announced that Clinicia, its evidence-based patient nutrition program, is now helping 500 hospitals across the United States deliver 10 million personalized, clinically appropriate ...
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Nutrition programs for older adults face service cuts

Programs that feed older, homebound adults are instituting waiting lists amid budget crunches, rising costs of food, growing demand for their services and funding cuts from the government. Combined ...