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After some wrangling over the best way to address Kansas’ sales tax on food, lawmakers eventually signed off on a measure to reduce the state and local taxes on groceries — though its path forward remains uncertain.
At the beginning of Thursday, the Kansas Senate appeared poised to approve a measure to reduce the sales tax on food — but only for certain foods deemed to be
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As our population grows, we must keep innovating to provide ample, healthy food sources. The result? A more sustainable food system thanks to animals that are resilient to climate change and disease, and can produce healthy protein for our ever-growing planet.
As the world grows larger, the question remains: Can we feed it?
The future of the food system at large, and the livestock industry in particular, depends on two critical areas: addressing environmental impact and identifying areas
Heart disease is the number one killer for men and women. February is American Heart Month, and The Cleveland Clinic has released its annual heart survey. It shows food costs and access to healthy foods are some of the biggest obstacles to heart health.
Cleveland Clinic polled a thousand adults from across the country and found nearly half of Americans surveyed are having trouble with the surging grocery costs; 46 percent believe healthy food being more expensive is the biggest barrier to eating healthy.
“We all see it really now, with the prices being hiked at our grocery stores for
In a joint letter, the organizations offered their support to develop food policies covering a range of topics, from working conditions for agricultural workers to the fight against depopulation or rural areas.
Given the ‘current food price crisis’, they insist on political measures must be approved to ‘guarantee access to healthy food’ as well as the ‘sustainability of the entire agri-food model’ in the medium and long term.
With this in mind, the coalition has urged the government to take ten steps they say will promote a ‘fairer agrifood system’. The want to see civil society to be ‘take more
Two goals that all of us probably have at all times: to eat healthier and to cut back on our spending. But too often it seems that these two aspirations just don’t go hand in hand.
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Healthy foods are often more expensive than junk food. Furthermore, nutritious meals tend to take longer — and require more skill — to prepare. And thanks to inflation, the cost of food is only going up. For
Keymah Durden and Randy McShepard are very frank when talking about Cleveland’s Kinsman neighborhood, where the childhood friends grew up and where they joined forces with three other Black men to found Rid-All Green Partnership, a nonprofit organization focused on urban agriculture and education.
“People living in Kinsman are dealing with significant trauma as a result of being poor and from generational poverty. They feel disengaged, forgotten about, despised. So, when you show them that despite their trauma, that despite dropping out of high school or being unemployed or being poor, you can overcome that, when you come to Rid-All
Ranked as fifth best overall in the US News & World Report’s annual ratings of popular eating plans, the TLC, which was devised by the National Institutes of Health to help people lower their LDL cholesterol levels, is more of a program than a diet plan.
TLC, or Therapeutic Lifestyle Changes, not only offers an eating plan, but also recommends other lifestyle modifications including 30 minutes of activity each day and weight management in an 80-page booklet available online.
The program focuses on how changing eating habits might help lower “bad” cholesterol. The dietary part
As we look ahead to February, many have set an intention to eat a little healthier this year.
It can be difficult to stay on track with a healthy lifestyle change amidst rising grocery costs.
Amber Barrowman, a clinical dietitian, provided some tips for eating healthy on a budget. To begin with, she explained that home cooking and limiting the amount that you eat certainly helps a lot.
“Planning ahead is the biggest tip I can give when it comes to healthy eating no matter what your budget is. It’s important to sit down prior to the week ahead and