“Axe the Food Tax”
Food Equality Initiative signed on to a letter of support, urging Kansas lawmakers to pass a straight-forward bill to end the food tax.
The Medical Nutrition Equity Act of 2021
Nearly 40 states require some type of coverage for necessary medical nutrition. However, not everyone meets this coverage.
FEI Advocate: Nehgar
Nehgar said, “I would love to do anything to help families across the nation, because it is really necessary. People are struggling.”
FEI Advocate: Dawn
Dawn said: I need to go to advocate. Someone can benefit from my story. People need to know what it is like to be an adult with food allergies.
Food is Food Allergy Medicine
In food allergy, we sometimes forget to think of food in a positive sense; that food can actually make you feel better. Food is medicine.
FOOD IS MEDICINE
Medicine was traditionally viewed as a drug, but we are understanding more that healthy food is medicine and should be made more accessible.
Food is EoE Medicine
Food is medicine is broadening people’s viewpoints in EoE to think outside the box: ‘hey, my child is being treated, it just isn’t a pill.’
Food is Celiac Disease Medicine
It takes collaboration with a registered dietician to learn how to eat gluten free in a way that nourishes the body. Food is medicine.
Food Laws: Intro to Changemaking
Thank you so much for joining us for part one of our new webinar series, Food Laws: Intro to Changemaking.
The Grocery Store: A Scavenger Hunt
In order to get the free-from foods their bodies require, food allergic and celiac individuals have to spend a lot more on grocery shopping.
