Nutrition For Better Health & Lower Costs

In recent months we've written about the importance of good nutrition for improving consumer outcomes and lowering the cost of care. For example, adults who are food insecure have health insurance costs $1,863 higher than adults who have access to adequate nutrition and are 15.3 percentage points more likely to have a chronic illness (see What Does The Farm Bill Have To Do With Health Care?). And my colleague Sarah Threnhauser recently reported on President Trump's proposed budget for fiscal year 2019, in which the spending for supplemental nutrition assistance program (SNAP, or as the program . . .