Our Commitment to Food & Health
For decades, the American Heart Association has been a leader in both promoting healthy food intake and nutrition and expanding access to health care: two components critical to the adoption of food is medicine interventions.
Explore the American Heart Association’s commitments to food and health care access below:
Food & Nutrition
Science
- Food Is Medicine: A Presidential Advisory From the American Heart Association
- Opportunities in the Postpartum Period to Reduce Cardiovascular Disease Risk After Adverse Pregnancy Outcomes
- The American Heart Association at 100: A Century of Scientific Progress and the Future of Cardiovascular Science – Professional Heart Daily | American Heart Association
- Optimizing Prepregnancy Cardiovascular Health to Improve Outcomes in Pregnant and Postpartum Individuals and Offspring
- Life’s Essential Eight: Updating and Enhancing the American Heart Association’s Cardiovascular Health Construct
- 2021 Dietary Guidance to Improve Cardiovascular Health
- Lifestyle and Risk Factor Modification for Reduction of Atrial Fibrillation
- Dietary Cholesterol and Cardiovascular Risk
- Added Sugars and Cardiovascular Disease Risk in Children
- Social Determinants of Risk and Outcomes for Cardiovascular Disease
Policy
Community Impact
Consumer Health
Access to Health Care
Science
- Rapid Diet Assessment Screening Tools for Cardiovascular Disease Risk Reduction Across Healthcare Settings: A Scientific Statement From the American Heart Association
- Call to Action for Cardiovascular Disease in Women: Epidemiology, Awareness, Access, and Delivery of Equitable Health Care: A Presidential Advisory From the American Heart Association
- Leveraging Implementation Science for Cardiovascular Health Equity: A Scientific Statement From the American Heart Association