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Headline : Nutrition Policy Institute: 10 years of making healthy choices more accessible for all

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Of the many challenges facing humanity, nothing is more fundamental than securing healthy food and water for all. Life itself would not be possible without nutrients, energy and water โ€“ but for many people across the United States, that essential fuel is compromised.

โ€œRight now, the average American diet quality has a failing grade,โ€ said Lorrene Ritchie, University of California Cooperative Extension nutrition specialist. โ€œIf you scored it from 0 to 100, it would be about 55 to 60. And we're trying to move that number closer to 80.โ€

To help society reach that goal, the Nutrition Policy Institute was established 10 years ago, under the UC Agriculture and Natural Resources umbrella.

โ€œNPI was created in recognition of the fact that more people in the United States are now ill with a nutrition-related chronic disease than are well,โ€ said Ritchie, who has been director of the institute since its founding. โ€œSix in 10 adults in the U.S. have one or more chronic diseases โ€“ 4 in 10 have two chronic diseases โ€“ that are preventable. When you have that big of a public health nutrition problem, the scope requires big policies, big program changes and big environmental changes.โ€

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