Nutrition

The head of Indonesia's National Nutrition Agency, Nanik Sudaryati Deyang, talks to journalists after her swearing-in ceremony at Merdeka Palace in Jakarta, Indonesia, Monday, June 8, 2026. (AP Photo/Achmad Ibrahim, File)

Chief of troubled Indonesian nutrition agency replaced for second time in 2 months

Indonesian President Prabowo Subianto replaced the head of the country’s nutrition agency for the second time in two months, deepening uncertainty over the future of his troubled multi-billion-dollar free meals program.

(AP Illustration / Peter Hamlin)

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Former head of Indonesia's National Nutrition Agency Dadan Hindayana sits inside a detention car after being named as a corruption suspect, at the Attorney Genera's Office in Jakarta, Indonesia, Wednesday, June 3, 2026. (AP Photo/Achmad Ibrahim)

Indonesia arrests former nutrition agency head and officials in corruption investigation

New York strip steaks are on display at a Sam's Club, Wednesday, Sept. 24, 2025, in Bentonville, Ark. (AP Photo/Charlie Riedel, File)

New diet guidelines say to double up on protein, but nutrition experts are wary

A student drinks milk in the cafeteria area of an elementary school in Los Angeles on Tuesday, Jan. 13, 2015. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong, File)

Trump signs a law returning whole milk to school lunches

Ex-head of nutrition agency and officials arrested in Indonesia corruption probe

The recently dismissed head of Indonesia’s National Nutrition Agency, Dadan Hindayana, was arrested on Wednesday on corruption charges related to a multi-billion-dollar free-meals program. The program delivered on a campaign promise of President Prabowo Subianto and aimed to fight malnutrition by feeding nearly 90 million children and pregnant women but came under steep criticism due to high costs and cases of food poisoning among schoolchildren who ate the meals.

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Special Rapporteur of the United Nations Human Rights Council Alena Douhan departs after attending a press conference in Havana, Friday, Nov. 21, 2025. (AP Photo/Ramon Espinosa)

UN human rights rapporteur calls on United States to lift sanctions on Cuba

Gov. Gavin Newsom prepares to speak at a news conference at Belvedere Middle School, Wednesday, Oct. 8, 2025, in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes)

New California law aims to improve school nutrition by phasing out some ultraprocessed foods

A woman checks on her malnourished child at Banadir Hospital in Mogadishu, Somalia, Wednesday, May 14, 2025. (AP Photo/Farah Abdi Warsameh)

US aid kept many hungry Somali children alive. Now that money is disappearing

A U.S. flag hangs in the warehouse of Edesia Nutrition as CEO Navyn Salem stands among raw materials for Plumpy'Nut, a nutritional lifesaving peanut paste sent to malnourished children worldwide, Friday, March 14, 2025, in North Kingstown, R.I. (AP Photo/David Goldman)

A British billionaire funded therapeutic food production amid USAID ‘craziness.’ It won’t be enough

Second-grade students select their meals during lunch break in the cafeteria at an elementary school in Scottsdale, Ariz., Dec. 12, 2022. (AP Photo/Alberto Mariani, File)

There’s a new push to put whole milk back in school meals. Here’s what you should know

Canola oil is poured into a pan in Concord, N.H., on March 27, 2007. (AP Photo/Larry Crowe, File)

Kennedy and influencers bash seed oils, baffling nutrition scientists

A plate of sauteed green beans is displayed in Lincoln, Neb., on Oct. 16, 2024. (Amber Pankonin via AP)

What’s the healthiest way to prepare vegetables? The way that makes you eat them.

FILE- Bottles freshly filled with beer move on a conveyor belt at Lakefront Brewery in Milwaukee, Jan. 14, 2019. (AP Photo/Carrie Antlfinger, File)

Proposed rules would require nutrition info, allergen warnings on alcohol labels

In this Nov. 2, 2013 file photo, various cuts of beef and pork are displayed for sale in the meat department at a discount market in Arlington, Va. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)

More beans and less red meat: Nutrition experts weigh in on US dietary guidelines

USTA first national governing body partnered with White House sports and nutrition committee

Second gentleman Doug Emhoff speaks at an event on ending hunger in America, Tuesday, Feb. 27, 2024, at the Eisenhower Executive Office Building on the White House complex in Washington. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

Emhoff announces $1.7B in pledges to help President Biden meet goal of ending hunger by 2030

FILE - A can of toddler nutritional drink sits on a shelf in a grocery store in Surfside, Fla., on Friday, June 17, 2022. Powdered drink mixes that are widely promoted as “toddler milks” for older babies and children up to age 3 are unregulated, unnecessary and “nutritionally incomplete,” the American Academy of Pediatrics warned Friday, Oct. 20, 2023 (AP Photo/Wilfredo Lee, File)

So-called toddler milks are unregulated and unnecessary, a major pediatrician group says

FILE - A Somali woman breastfeeds her child at a camp for displaced people on the outskirts of Dollow, Somalia on Sept. 20, 2022. Acute malnutrition among pregnant women and breastfeeding mothers has increased by 25% in the past two years in 12 countries hard hit by rising food prices fueled by the fighting in Ukraine, according to a new United Nations report released Tuesday, March 7, 2023. (AP Photo/Jerome Delay, File)

Malnutrition rises in pregnant women in 12 at-risk countries

FILE - Milk is displayed at a grocery store in Philadelphia, Tuesday, July 12, 2022. Food and Drug Administration officials issued guidance that says plant-based beverages don’t pretend to be from dairy animals – and that U.S. consumers aren’t confused by the difference. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke, File)

No cow needed: Oat and soy can be called milk, FDA proposes

CORRECTS DAY/DATE TO FRIDAY, FEB. 10, 2023 INSTEAD OF SATURDAY, FEB. 11 - A seventh grader carries her plate which consists of three bean chili, rice, mandarins and cherry tomatoes and baked chips during her lunch break at a local public school, Friday, Feb. 10, 2023, in the Brooklyn borough of New York. A 2010 federal law that boosted nutrition standards for school meals may have helped curb obesity among America’s children _ even teenagers who can buy their own snacks, according to a study published Monday, Feb. 13, 2023, in the journal JAMA Pediatrics. (AP Photo/Wong Maye-E)

Study hints healthier school lunch can reduce obesity

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FILE - Second-grade students select their meals during lunch break in the cafeteria at an elementary school in Scottsdale, Ariz., Dec. 12, 2022. On Friday, Feb. 3, 2023, U.S. agriculture officials proposed new nutrition standards for school meals, including the first-ever limits on added sugars, with a focus on sweetened foods such as cereals, yogurt, flavored milk and breakfast pastries. (AP Photo/Alberto Mariani, File)

New rules would limit sugar in school meals for first time

FILE - A sign for the Food and Drug Administration is displayed outside their offices in Silver Spring, Md., on Dec. 10, 2020. The head of the Food and Drug Administration has announced, Tuesday, Jan. 31, 2023, an overhaul of the agency's food safety and nutrition division. FDA Commissioner Dr. Robert Califf is vowing to better protect consumers and the U.S. food supply.(AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta, File)

FDA revamping foods program to move past ‘constant turmoil’

Mothers along with babies who suffer from malnutrition wait to receive help and check-up at a clinic that run by the WFP, in Kabul, Afghanistan, Thursday, Jan. 26, 2023. A spokesman for the U.N. food agency says malnutrition rates in Afghanistan are at record highs. Aid agencies have been providing food, education, healthcare and other critical support to people, but distribution has been severely impacted by a Taliban edict banning women from working at national and international nongovernmental groups. (AP Photo/Ebrahim Noroozi)

UN food agency: Afghan malnutrition rates at record high

FILE - A sample plate of the food icon MyPlate, is unveiled at the U.S. Department of Agriculture in Washington, Thursday, June 2, 2011. A new study finds that few Americans have heard of MyPlate, the government diet guide that replaced the longstanding food pyramid in 2011, and even fewer have tried to follow its advice. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh, File)

MyPlate? Few Americans know or heed US nutrition guide

FILE - Vegetables are displayed for sale at a grocery store in River Ridge, La., Wednesday, July 11, 2018. On Thursday, Nov. 17, 2022, U.S. agriculture officials proposed changes to the federal program that helps pay the grocery bills for pregnant women, babies and young children that includes keeping a bump in payments for fresh fruits and vegetables allowed during the COVID-19 pandemic. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert, File)

USDA program keeps extra COVID-era money for fruits, veggies

FILE - Sen. John Boozman, R-Ark., speaks on Capitol Hill in Washington, March 16, 2022. Boozman is running for reelection. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon File)

Boozman reelected to Senate, awaits word on ag panel chair

1st guilty pleas entered in $250M federal food program fraud

President Joe Biden speaks during the White House Conference on Hunger, Nutrition, and Health, at the Ronald Reagan Building, Wednesday, Sept. 28, 2022, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Biden on ending hunger in US: ‘I know we can do this’

President Joe Biden speaks during an event on health care costs, in the Rose Garden of the White House, Tuesday, Sept. 27, 2022, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Biden’s strategy to end hunger in US includes more benefits

Aimee Bock, the executive director of the nonprofit Feeding Our Future, speaks, Thursday, Jan. 27, 2022 in St. Anthony, Minn. Federal authorities charged dozens of people in Minnesota with conspiracy and other counts on Tuesday, Set. 2022, in what they said was a massive scheme that took advantage of the COVID-19 pandemic to steal $250 million from a federal program that provides meals to low-income children. Feeding Our Future’s founder and executive director, Aimee Bock, was among those indicted, and authorities say she and others in her organization submitted the fraudulent claims for reimbursement and received kickbacks. (Shari L. Gross/Star Tribune via AP)

US: 48 exploited pandemic to steal $250M from food program

Georgia switching to debit cards to deliver WIC benefits

Congress approves free student meal extension through summer

FILE - An Abbott Laboratories manufacturing plant is shown in Sturgis, Mich., on Sept. 23, 2010. Severe weather has forced Abbott Nutrition to pause production at a Michigan baby formula factory that had just restarted. The company said late Wednesday, June 15, 2022 that production for its EleCare specialty formula has stopped, but it has enough supply to meet needs until more formula can be made. (Brandon Watson/Sturgis Journal via AP)

Production at bedeviled baby formula factory halted by storm

President Joe Biden speaks on security assistance to Ukraine during a visit to the Lockheed Martin Pike County Operations facility where they manufacture Javelin anti-tank missiles, Tuesday, May 3, 2022, in Troy, Ala. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Biden announces Sept conference on hunger, nutrition, health

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