Promote Healthy Eating Active Living

ACS CAN will work with policymakers to plan, implement and evaluate HEAL priority issues:

• Establish science-based nutrition standards for all foods and beverages sold or served in schools.
• Increase the quantity and improving the quality of physical education in K-12 schools, supplemented by additional school-based physical activity.
• Increase funding for policy, scientific and population-based research and interventions focused on improving nutrition, increasing physical activity and reducing obesity, with the ultimate goal of reducing cancer risk.
• Support and evaluate sugar-sweetened beverage taxes that meet ACS CAN’s policy criteria.
• Secure funding for infrastructure and programs aimed at increasing physical activity in transportation and recreation.
• Establish nutrition guidelines for foods and beverages provided or sold in government buildings. 
• Increase access to healthy foods.