Politics Nicholas Florko STAT Plus: ‘Leave the chocolate milk out of this’: School cooks, parents, kids push back on USDA effort to make lunches healthier
Health Nicholas Florko STAT Plus: Cereal, pasta, and other food companies blast the FDA for a too-strict definition of ‘healthy’
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First Opinion Bill Frist and Dariush Mozaffarian Congress: Close the gap between funding for nutrition research and the toll diet-related disease takes on Americans
First Opinion Podcast Patrick Skerrett Listen: What makes food ‘healthy’ and why we don’t prioritize nutrition
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First Opinion Marion Nestle FDA’s plan to define ‘healthy’ for food packaging: Better than the existing labeling anarchy, but do we really need it?
First Opinion Stephanie Rogus and Peter G. Lurie The White House has a major chance to improve coordination of federal nutrition efforts
First Opinion Dariush Mozaffarian and David B. Waters ‘Food is medicine’ interventions should be the main course at White House nutrition conference
First Opinion Bill Frist, Jerome M. Adams, and Jerold Mande Commissioner Califf needs to put the F back in FDA
First Opinion Fatima Cody Stanford and Kelly Copes-Anderson Recognizing obesity as a disease, not a choice, is a step toward health equity
First Opinion Podcast Patrick Skerrett Listen: A reporter and a reader on rethinking why people gain weight
First Opinion Gary Taubes How a ‘fatally, tragically flawed’ paradigm has derailed the science of obesity
First Opinion Nicholas Norwitz A ketogenic diet brought me back to life. Will believing in its effectiveness make me a pariah in medical school?
First Opinion Vanita Rahman and Matthew Rees Make America healthy again by paying more attention to nutrition
First Opinion Michelle D. Holmes Black lives depend on the U.S. dietary guidelines. Don’t water them down
First Opinion Leslie Mikkelsen Farmers markets provide healthy food and support local economies. Keep them open during Covid-19 lockdowns
First Opinion Stephanie Ettinger de Cuba, Diana B. Cutts, and Allison Bovell-Ammon Cutting 700,000 Americans from SNAP will increase health costs
First Opinion David B. Waters Medically tailored meals save lives. Health plans should cover their cost
Health Associated Press U.S. preschoolers growing less obese, data show, in latest sign of improvement
First Opinion Nicola Guess and Ethan J. Weiss Is tribalism undermining objectivity about low-carb, high-fat diets?