POLICY OPTIONS to promote nutrition and activity

• Nutrition Labeling on Menus/Menu Boards at Chain Restaurants
• Decrease Marketing of Low-Nutrition Foods to Children
• Improve School Foods Sold Outside of Meals (vending, a la carte, fundraisers, snacks, rewards, parties, etc.)
• Improve School Meals
• Set State/Local Food Standards (for all foods and meals purchased, prepared or served in agency programs on state/local property)
• Increase Physical Activity in Schools
• Support Physical Activity through Transportation Policy
• Promote Fruit and Vegetable Intake
• Increase Resources for Nutrition and Physical Activity Programs
  (including Soft Drink Taxes)
• Find State and Local Policies on Nutrition, Physical Activity, and Obesity
• Eliminate Trans fats
• Decrease Salt

Eating well and being physically active takes more than just willpower. We need programs and policies that make healthy food more available, that disclose the calorie content of restaurant foods, and that teach people how to make healthy eating easier. There are existing nutrition policies and programs, like Nutrition Facts labels on packaged foods, nutrition standards for school lunches, and regulation of food additives. But more needs to be done to help people who want to eat well and prevent diet-related disease.

Dr. Margo Wootan, Director of Nutrition Policy