Author: Food and Nutrition Board

More than 16 million children in the United States live in food-insecure households where they are unable to obtain enough food to meet their needs...

Artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning (ML), and deep learning (DL) are promising tools that can be used to develop algorithms to better un...

Creating Equal Opportunities for a Healthy Weight is the summary of a workshop convened by the Institute of Medicine's Standing Committee on Childh...

The United States Department of Agriculture's (USDA's) Economic Research Service's (ERS) Food Availability Data System includes three distinct but ...

At some point during 2009, more than 17 million households in the United States had difficulty providing enough food for all their members because ...

The childhood obesity epidemic is an urgent public health problem. The most recent data available show that nearly 19 percent of boys and about 15 ...

The United States is an important food producer globally, in part because of its abundance of agriculturally productive soils. However, management ...

Since 1980, childhood obesity rates have more than tripled in the United States. Recent data show that almost one-third of children over 2 years of...

The federal government requires that most packaged foods carry a standardized label--the Nutrition Facts panel--that provides nutrition information...

Since 1990, when the last guidelines for weight gain during pregnancy were issued, the average body weight of women entering their childbearing yea...

Despite efforts over the past several decades to reduce sodium intake in the United States, adults still consume an average of 3,400 mg of sodium e...

The Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC) began 40 years ago as a pilot program and has since grown to serv...

Recent scientific evidence points to the origins of childhood obesity as an outcome of the dynamic interplay of genetic, behavioral, and environmen...

In 2008, the U.S. federal government issued fully approved physical activity guidelines for the first time. The idea that physical activity impacts...

Older adults are a growing demographic group in the United States, and a range of physical, social, financial, and cultural factors affect their nu...

An estimated 90 percent of oncology patients in the United States receive treatment in outpatient cancer centers and clinics. This change from the ...

Reducing the intake of sodium is an important public health goal for Americans. Since the 1970s, an array of public health interventions and nation...

Obesity has come to the forefront of the American public health agenda. The increased attention has led to a growing interest in quantifying obesit...

Review of WIC Food Packages: An Evaluation of White Potatoes in the Cash Value Voucher assesses the impact of 2009 regulation to allow the purchase...

On July 9-10, 2014, the Institute of Medicine's Food Forum hosted a public workshop to explore emerging and rapidly developing research on relation...

Obesity affects 17 percent of children and adolescents and almost 36 percent of adults in the United States. Conservative estimates suggest that ob...

Among the many troubling aspects of the rising prevalence of obesity in the United States and elsewhere in recent years, the growth of early childh...

Over the past 20 years, public concerns have grown in response to the apparent rising prevalence of food allergy and related atopic conditions, suc...

Federal guidance on nutrition and diet is intended to reflect the state of the science and deliver the most reliable recommendations possible accor...

After decades of increases in the obesity rate among U.S. adults and children, the rate recently has dropped among some populations, particularly y...

In September 2016, the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine convened a workshop to examine trends and patterns in aging and fa...

On June 21-22, 2017, the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine's Food and Nutrition Board convened a workshop in Washington, DC...

The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine convened a public workshop in September 2017 to explore the evidence for achieving gl...

What foods should Americans eat to promote their health, and in what amounts? What is the scientific evidence that supports specific recommendation...

Childhood Obesity Prevention in Texas summarizes the information gathered at a workshop held February 5-6, 2009, in Austin, Texas. At this workshop...

The increasing prevalence and burden of obesity transcends borders, straining populations worldwide. Data shows that 50 million girls, 74 million b...

The Food Forum of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine convened a virtual workshop, Challenges and Opportunities for Preci...

On August 1 and 2, 2018, the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine hosted a public workshop in Washington, DC, on sustainable d...

This midcourse report provides an initial assessment of how the process used to develop the Dietary Guidelines for Americans, 2020-2025 (DGA) compa...

Obesity and overweight pose significant challenges to the armed forces in the United States, affecting service members (including active duty, guar...

A virtual workshop titled Integrating Systems and Sectors Toward Obesity Solutions, held April 6, 2020 (Part I), and June 30, 2020 (Part II), was c...

Recommended intake levels for nutrients and other dietary components were designed initially to prevent nutrient deficiency diseases in a given pop...

On December 5, 2017, the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine hosted a public workshop titled Nutrigenomics and the Future of ...

Dietary assessment in older adults presents many unique problems due to the diversity of health states and capabilities that span the population gr...

The Roundtable on Obesity Solutions of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine held a workshop in Washington, DC, on April 6,...

Since 1938 and 1941, nutrient intake recommendations have been issued to the public in Canada and the United States, respectively. Currently define...

In response to a request from Congress, the Health and Medicine Division of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine conducted...

The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine's Roundtable on Obesity Solutions convened a three-part workshop series that explored...

The Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC) began 40 years ago as a pilot program and has since grown to serv...

One of the many benefits of the U.S. food system is a safe, nutritious, and consistent food supply. However, the same system also places significan...

Approximately 30 percent of the edible food produced in the United States is wasted and a significant portion of this waste occurs at the consumer ...

The Food Forum convened a public workshop on February 22-23, 2012, to explore current and emerging knowledge of the human microbiome, its role in h...

Ensuring that the food provided to children in schools is consistent with current dietary recommendations is an important national focus. Various l...