Joe Balagtas

Column | 5 food-related policy ideas for the incoming administration Policy changes are important, even if they don’t affect how people eat.

A modest proposal for your Saturday morning: my 5-item food policy wish list.

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I know the article is focused on poor diet quality, not food insec. But that’s the point. These are distinct problems, and prob need distinct policies. Econs call this Tinbergen’s rule

In this case tinkering with SNAP to try to improve diet quality could make it less effective at addressing hunger

regarding the #1 and “there has never been a governmental health initiative that changed people’s eating habits enough to move the needle on a health metric.”

In fact there’s good evidence that SNAP reduces food insec and related short- and long-term neg consequences. So tinker with SNAP with care

I like this list, and am especially excited about the potential of glp-1-type drugs to improve health outcomes!

But …

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