HRES712-119

That the House of Representatives— expresses support for the designation of National Food is Medicine Day; highlights the role of healthy food in the well-being of all Americans; recognizes food as a health care tool to prevent, manage, and treat certain clinical conditions; recognizes the utility of the food is medicine intervention as a complement to population-level food and nutrition supports for sustained positive health outcomes; urges the Department on Health and Human Services to sustain scientific research on the use of food as medicine to integrate food as medicine interventions into healthcare delivery through expanding and building upon the evidence base, demonstrating cost-effectiveness, clinical impact, and operational feasibility across diverse populations; urges the Department on Health and Human Services to collaborate with the United States Department of Agriculture to best leverage the role of food as medicine; and urges the Department on Health and Human Services to scale the appropriate use of food is medicine in collaboration with patients and non-profit and private industry healthcare practitioners, providers, and payors.