Open Access#12021
Agricultural policy and societal factors influence patients' ability to follow a healthy diet
• Cardiovascular and cardiometabolic diseases are largely preventable, and are propagated by a poor diet. • Poor diet may be due to a lack of supply and access to healthy foods, agricultural subsidies, and marketing. • Improving national dietary intake starts with enhancing dietary guidelines, enacting legislative changes to optimize agricultural subsidies and food advertising, and incentivizing a plant-forward diet.