3/26/25 –
At the Food is Medicine (FIM) Advocacy Day on Capitol Hill, US, the FIM Institute and stakeholders met with members of Congress to help advance the movement. The institute says there is a public demand for food and nutrition-based interventions, encouraging policymakers and healthcare providers to expand their implementation.
Nutrition Insight discusses how the institute envisions expanding FIM policies with Ronit Ridberg, Ph.D., a research assistant professor at the FIM Institute at the Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy at Tufts University, US.
“We are encouraged by support at the highest levels of government for food and nutrition as a key driver of health and political will to advance solutions highlighting the role of food and nutrition. We hope that FIM can retain the historically bipartisan support it has enjoyed so far,” says Ridberg…