Policy

I went to the garden on Sunday and decided to finish preparing it for planting and I also made raised rows to help with irrigation as I saw some of the other plots had.  Hopefully we'll get to start planting soon so we can grow some veggies in time to use them. 

Policy making in the world of health and nutrition affects our field greatly.  Policy affects manymany aspects of community nutrition including: food assistance programs, national nutrition and health objectives,regulations to safeguard the food supply and ensure proper handling, dietary guidance systems, monitoring and surveillance programs and food labeling legislation.  Policy creation is completed by authorities who decide which steps to take in order to address a problem or problems.  Laws passed by congress set the framework for what policy must be.  There is also no single entity or office in the government which regulates and controls all areas of nutrition.