Author: Food and Nutrition Board

Many organizations are making focused efforts to prevent obesity. To achieve their goals, accelerate their progress, and sustain their success, the...

Section 141 of The Healthy, Hunger-Free Kids Act of 20101 provides funding for a research program on the causes and consequences of childhood hunge...

Physical inactivity is a key determinant of health across the lifespan. A lack of activity increases the risk of heart disease, colon and breast ca...

The childhood obesity epidemic and related health consequences are urgent public health problems. Approximately one-third of America's young people...

Obesity poses one of the greatest public health challenges of the 21st century, creating serious health, economic, and social consequences for indi...

One-third of adults are now obese, and children's obesity rates have climbed from 5 to 17 percent in the past 30 years. The causes of the nation's ...

As women of childbearing age have become heavier, the trade-off between maternal and child health created by variation in gestational weight gain h...

The Food and Nutrition Board of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine convened a virtual workshop series that gathered rese...

The National Academies Food Forum hosted a public workshop in August 2023 that explored the state of the science on the linkages between dietary pa...

The National Academies Roundtable on Obesity Solutions hosted an April, July, and October, 2022 workshop series to explore the gaps in knowledge wi...

The U.S. population of older adults is predicted to grow rapidly as baby boomers (those born between 1946 and 1964) begin to reach 65 years of age....