Improving Access to Healthy Foods: A Guide for Policy-makers
This guide focuses on healthy eating and highlights why a healthy diet remains out of reach for many Americans. It explores how officials at the state and local levels can
facilitate healthy eating by adopting policies that help communities improve access to
affordable, healthy foods for all residents. This guide also outlines proactive steps that policy-makers are currently taking in schools and government institutions across the country to help increase access to nutritious food options. A companion guide,  ncreasing Active Living: A Guide for Policy-makers, focuses on the importance of  hysical activity and describes how state and local policy-makers can help create  ealthier environments that support and encourage physical activity for students, families and communities.


Target Audience: Grantees, Policy-makers, Policy Influencers, and the Private Sector

File Name: Improving Access to Healthy Foods: A Guide for Policy-makers.pdf

 

 

Leadership for Healthy Communities is a national program of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.

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