Partnership For A Healthier America

WATCH TODAY: Our Food For Kids Summit explores the challenges & opportunities of early childhood nutrition

09-Nov-2021 By Elizabeth Crawford

Parents and caregivers crave information about how best to feed their children, and while they have a lot of resources available via the Internet, health care providers, peer groups and brand marketing – they aren’t always sure what to trust or where...

Introducing the 4th Food For Kids Summit: How are new guidelines, emerging research and evolving trends reshaping children’s diets and the marketplace?

20-Oct-2021 By Elizabeth Crawford

Beginning at conception and continuing through first bites to afterschool snacks and beyond, nutrition plays a pivotal role in children’s brain development, emotional lives, and long-term health – but all too often they aren’t getting all the nutrients...

Investing in the Future of Food: Baby food company Tiny Organics raises $11m to help ‘rewrite’ American diet

23-Jun-2021 By Elizabeth Crawford

Convincing children to eat their vegetables doesn’t have to be a struggle, according to the founders of Tiny Organics, who, with an infusion of $11 million in Series A funding, are helping kids break the sugar addiction with which they are born by replacing...

PHA 'Veggies Early and Often' campaign galvanizes support for a veggie-forward baby food market

28-Jan-2021 By Mary Ellen Shoup

Despite parents' best efforts and new products coming to the market promising critical nutrients from vegetables, the fact remains that the vast majority of children are simply not eating enough vegetables. This reality is the primary motivating...

PHA, PMA tackle food insecurity due to coronavirus with expanded Fresh Picks produce boxes

16-Oct-2020 By Elizabeth Crawford

Partnership for a Healthier America and the Produce Marketing Association are expanding their COVID-19 Fresh Food Fund in a duel effort to ease food insecurity exacerbated by the coronavirus pandemic and create a new market for produce that might otherwise...

Raising a nation of veggie lovers: PHA teams up with Nurture Life, Good Feeding, Fresh Bellies, lil'gourmets, and Tiny Organics

29-Apr-2020 By Mary Ellen Shoup

Partnership for a Healthier America (PHA) is teaming up with baby and kids food manufacturers, early childhood educators, and other key stakeholders under its 'Shaping Early Palates Initiative', which aims to disrupt the marketplace of childhood...

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Partnership for a Healthier America and convenience stores band together to help Americans eat better

09-Apr-2019 By Mary Ellen Shoup

Partnership for a Healthier America (PHA) is leveraging the impact convenience stores can have on changing Americans' eating habits for the better through its partnerships with c-store chains and distributors.

Sprout Foods commits to adding more veggies to its baby food to help prevent obesity later in life

09-Apr-2019 By Elizabeth Crawford

Frustrated that efforts to “treat or fix” childhood obesity in the US have fallen short, Sprout Foods is teaming with the Partnership for a Healthier America to try and prevent the problem from occurring by training children from an early age to crave...

Soup-To-Nuts Podcast: From Sesame Street to Regina Hall – Industry taps celebrities to sell produce

05-Apr-2019 By Elizabeth Crawford

In recent years, the healthy eating trend had expanded dramatically beyond a fad for the few to gain a stronghold with mainstream shoppers, but produce is still at a significant disadvantage when it comes to capturing the attention of children and teenagers...

Partnership for a Healthier America will dive deep into what it takes to create a sustainable, healthy diet

22-Mar-2019 By Elizabeth Crawford

In order to feed a nutritious, sustainable diet to the predicted 10 billion people who will populate Earth by 2050, environmental advocates and food & beverage industry stakeholders must work together rather than apart from – or even at times against...

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Could the Digital Revolution solve diet-related problems caused by the Industrial Revolution?

21-Mar-2019 By Elizabeth Crawford

If harnessed appropriately, rapid advances in digital technology could offer much-needed solutions to some of the unintentional negative diet- and nutrition-related consequences from otherwise positive Industrial Revolution era developments, according...