Thus far the only thing I agree with is getting artificial dyes out of the food chain. From the article it might "include medically tailored meals or nutrition counseling".

Any change will cost more and be medically meaningless. Not addressing starch, sugar, flour, seed grain oils means they won't help at all. Imagine a supermarket with no chips, donuts, cakes and cookies, to say nothing of pizza and white pasta. Nothing changes unless someone is making money from it.

If they do convince elders to eat a perfect diet, where will they dump the garbage food, on Gen Z, or other groups or countries they don't like?

Remember that many seniors are home-bound and some actually participate in services such as "Meals On Wheels" or some other type of food/meal delivery service. So any type of counseling /recommendations - particularly if the service is "a la carte", might be helpful. And this might apply to any caregivers who are with the home-bound to provide advice for meal prep.

I tend not to understand truly poor diets and deficiencies.

I.e., not having a supermarket within many miles of where they live, forcing them to rely on "convenience stores" with limited or no availability of fresh produce, means little access to recognizable "nutritious meals".

Just over a week ago here in Philly, there was an under-construction garage that collapsed, killing 2 construction workers and injurying a 3rd, at the location where Children's Hospital had been expanding in West Philly. That resulted in forcing the shopping strip with the only supermarket in the area, which was adjacent to the site, to close for safety reasons until the bodies in the garage were recovered, and parts of the unstable structure were demolished.

as well as an rx for meal supplement drinks.
it wd help.

and thus have wasting away of their muscles. I have a brother like that.

Protein drinks should be prescription.

i lost 20lbs. i felt like shit. i was worthless.

Loading more costs on to Medicare is a surefire way to tempt politicians to cut other services, like actual medical care, or use costs as an excuse to fully privatize it. We already have SNAP. It should be expanded if needed.

"SNAP" is about to be nearly obliterated due to the Barbaric Butcher Bill.

Congress is marking up the Farm Bill (the appropriations that should have been done in 2023 instead of endlessly extending the 2018 one and a House Ag Committee version just made it out oi committee last month, with a companion Senate version in process) and that is where SNAP is being funded and will be gutted. And this goes along with introducing draconian limits and work requirements for people who have already been out of work or who already ARE working but forced to do it via a series of gig jobs that don't provide enough for housing, let alone food.

feed the people!

I have to say this is a good step.

Because I am so "rich," I barely qualify for food stamps with a whopping $30 a month of benefits, while I raised and provided for 4 kids, I gladly paid into the System for 40 years for others. I have to beg, borrow and do whatever I can to eat, much less eat an expensive diabetic diet. I also have no access to Medicaid because I have to spend $4000 a year in order for it to kick in. Yeah right, where to I get that? From the Tooth Fairy? Oh yeah, right, I lost all my teeth because as a working mother, I did not qualify for dental care, only my kids did, for which I was grateful.

Now as a senior on a fixed income with little resources because I worked McJobs as required making rich men richer saying, "do you want fries with that?" I barely had enough to pay the rent much less feed myself right.

So yeah sure I could use a better access to a decent diet all right But I do not trust it because who is really going to get all that funding. I have seen mega non-profits, including shall I say, "Schmalvation sharmy, Schmood Schmill," religious mega-church institutions sitting on millions who get it and all of them act like even though you are exhausted, working your butt off as they demand you do in order to qualify, and trying to manage things, they act like you do not deserve what they get, they "deserve" it more.

My 2 cents, Cat from Seattle