LET’S MAKE OUR FOOD HEALTHIER
Our communities are drowning in a swamp of unhealthy junk food and beverages, leading to an epidemic of diabetes, obesity, heart disease and tooth decay. Added sugars in our food and drinks are a major threat to public health. And healthy food can be expensive and hard to find in many places.
Healthy Food America is on the frontlines of the fight to ensure that all people have access to healthy, nutritious food and are less exposed to unhealthy junk foods.
We support community leaders across the nation who are advocating for policies and strategies like soda taxes and healthy food incentives to make healthy eating easier for all Americans.
We share the latest research and cutting edge policy and advocacy strategies so advocates can act on the best information and science to drive change in policy, food environments and industry practices. Read more about us.
New commentary: To Protect Young Children’s Health, Limit Marketing and Ubiquity of Unhealthy Foods and Beverages.
Children are exposed to unhealthy food environments created by a food industry that creates, promotes, and sells far too many unhealthy, ultraprocessed products.
The commentary discusses a suite of policies to reduce the impact of marketing of unhealthy foods to young children, including countermarketing, regulatory actions, legal interventions, taxation, and front-of-package warning labels. It was published in the American Journal of Public Health in October 2022.
THE SUGAR ADVOCACY TOOLKIT
Obesity remains epidemic. Diabetes is rampant and striking younger children. Heart, liver, and dental diseases afflict mission and costs billions. Why? There is too much sugar in our food and beverage products.