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CHAPTER 124
( SJR 23 )
A JOINT RESOLUTION declaring Kentucky a Food is Medicine state and directing state agencies to advance
Food is Medicine initiatives.
WHEREAS, the United States spends $4.5 trillion annually on health care with 90 percent of those
expenditures covering care for people with chronic physical and mental health conditions; and
WHEREAS, six in 10 Americans have at least one chronic disease and four in 10 have two or more chronic
diseases; and
WHEREAS, diet-related physical conditions such as obesity impact 41.9 percent of adults in the United States