Health and Well-being

Better Together - FMI Engages Expert Leaders in Nutrition and Health Across the Food Industry

Amidst a whirlwind of health-related topics and programs going on across the food industry, we took a moment to gather the FMI Health & Well-being Council in person to really explore the complicated landscape together. The top-notch nutrition and ...

Let's Tackle the Real Causes of Food Inflation to Feed American Families

While it has been encouraging to see inflation cool in recent months, it’s been equally frustrating that the current political dialogue has lacked an in-depth, meaningful discussion of the economic subtleties and nuances that influence the real cost ...

Keeping Consumer Food Safety Education at the Forefront of Food as Medicine Programs

Food safety plays a tremendous role in ensuring and maintaining health and well-being. FMI’s demonstration of commitment to food safety education stretches back to the founding and continued support of the Partnership for Food Safety Education, over ...

Photo Friday: Innovating with USDA to Improve Nutrition Security

USDA MyPlate National Strategic Partners from across the country gathered for an in-person MyPlate Convening: Innovating to Advance Nutrition Security on July 18th at Amazon’s Arlington Headquarters. Programming included sessions on collaboration ...

Spotlight: Nutrition Experts Reach Consumers with Science-Based Tech Tools

Registered dietitian nutritionists (RDNs) are working behind the scenes to ensure that credible information and evidence-based messaging is reaching consumers using a wide variety of channels. This new FMI video captures the role that technology ...

Learn More: Corn Masa Flour Fortification Can Reduce Risk of Neural Tube Defects

Hispanic women of reproductive age are at higher risk than other demographics of having a baby affected by neural tube defects (7 NTDs per 10,000 live births). The US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) states that “Increasing ...

Connecting the Science of Food and Nutrition to Health

We are excited to share a comprehensive one-page infographic to support industry-wide nutrition and health initiatives, to bring together science-based guidance on food, portions and ...

Top Five Things to Know about Healthy Benefits Cards

Consumers across the country are gaining access to healthy benefits as dollars to spend on their overall health and well-being. These “healthy benefits” are made available through public and private funding and are delivered in varied ways as part ...

National Nutrition Month 2024: Beyond the Table

In March we celebrate National Nutrition Month®, an annual campaign from the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics (the Academy). This celebration started in 1973 as National Nutrition Week and became a month-long observance in 1980 in response to a ...

The Food Industry is Committed to Health & Well-being

As we see interest in nutrition and healthy eating increasing everywhere, from daily media articles to newly reformulated products, companies across the food industry are focused on meaningful strategic initiatives to support consumers with their ...

HHS Food is Medicine Summit Brings Key Stakeholders Together

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) held the first-ever HHS Food is Medicine Summit on January 31st in Washington, DC to address the importance of food is medicine initiatives with gathered policymakers, advocates, researchers ...

Key Takeaways from FMI’s In-Person Nutrition and Health Gathering

There’s nothing like getting together in person to discuss the biggest nutrition, health and well-being topics impacting the food industry. After three years of meeting virtually, we are thrilled that the FMI Health and Well-being Council had the ...

Power of Health & Well-being 2023 Report Released

With a nationwide uptick in attention on nutrition and health in 2023, we are pleased to share the newly released Power of Health & Well-being in the Food Industry report. This timely edition leverages findings from many other recent FMI reports to ...

Expanding Access to Food as Medicine Programs

The recent Food as Medicine Policy Summit held in Washington, DC, brought together 250 executives, stakeholders, and thought leaders from the food and beverage industry, government, academia, health care sector and nonprofit organizations to explore ...

The Family Meals Movement is Growing

This fall, FMI made a huge splash during National Family Meals Month by strengthening our partnership with USDA’s MyPlate. Together, we created resources that spotlight the year-round FMI Foundation Family Meals Movement initiative and the MyPlate ...