Most Americans Follow an Eating Pattern in Search of Energy, Protein, and Well-Being – With Growing Financial Stress: A Food as Medicine Update
By Jane Sarasohn-Kahn on 20 June 2024 in AI, AI and health, Anxiety, Artificial intelligence, Business and health, Consumer experience, Consumer-directed health, Determinants of health, Diet and health, Digital health, Financial health, Financial wellness, Food and health, Food as medicine, Food security, GLP-1s, Grocery stores, Health access, Health and wealth, Health apps, Health at home, Health Consumers, Health costs, Health Economics, Health ecosystem, Health engagement, Health media, Heart health, Home care, Home economics, Home health, Hospital to home, Integrative medicine, Internet and Health, medical home, Mobile apps, Mobile health, Money and health, Nutrition, Obesity, Out of pocket costs, Patient engagement, Patient experience, Patient safety, Peer-to-peer health, Personal health finance, Pharmaceutical, Pharmacy, Physicians, Popular culture and health, Prescription drugs, Prevention, Prevention and wellness, Primary care, Retail health, SDoH, Self-care, Seniors and health, Shopping and health, Social determinants of health, Social media and health, Specialty drugs, Stress, Trust, Vitamins, Weight loss, Wellbeing
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Most Americans follow some kind of eating regime, seeking energy, more protein, and healthy aging, according to the annual 2024 Food & Health Survey published this week by the International Food Information Council (IFIC). But a person’s household finances play a direct role in their ability to balance healthful food purchases and healthy eating, IFIC learned. In this 19th annual fielding of this research, IFIC explored 3,000 U.S. consumers’ perspectives on diet and nutrition, trusted sources for food information, and new insights into peoples’ views on the GLP-1 weight-loss drugs and the growing sense