Nutrition - General
- Keystone Forum Report on Away-From-Home Foods
The "Keystone Forum on Away-From-Home Foods: Opportunities for Preventing Weight Gain and Obesity", commissioned by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) provides recommendations from experts in industry, government, civic sector organizations, and academia, for improving consumers' ability to manage calorie intake from foods prepared and purchased away-from-home. The Keystone Report offers recommendations related to: 1) understanding and influencing consumer behavior; 2) increasing the availability of lower-calorie products, menu items, and meals; and 3) providing consumers with nutrition information. The following webpage has the press release, the full report, questions and answers, and a background summary
www.fda.gov/bbs/topics/NEWS/2006/NEW01379.html
- American Dietetic Association Issues Position Statement on "An Evidence-Based Analysis of Individual-, Family-, School- and Community-Based Interventions for Pediatric Overweight"
Excess weight in children is a national problem requiring prevention and treatment efforts in virtually every aspect of a child's life, according to a new position statement of the American Dietetic Association. This is ADA's first official position statement to be based on a rigorous, systematic, evidence-based analysis of the literature on the practical effectiveness of pediatric intervention programs. ADA's position statement is as follows:
The American Dietetic Association recognizing that overweight is a significant problem for children and adolescents in the United States, takes the position that pediatric overweight intervention requires a combination of family-based and school-based multicomponent programs that include the promotion of physical activity, parent training/modeling, behavioral counseling, and nutrition education. Furthermore, although not yet evidence-based, community-based and environmental interventions are recommended as among the most feasible ways to support healthful lifestyles for the greatest number of children and their families. ADA supports the commitment of resources for programs, policy development, and research for the efficacious promotion of healthful eating habits and increased physical activity in all children and adolescents, regardless of weight status.
- Nutrition in Childcare, the Best of Healthy Childcare
Healthy Childcare has a new resource available, Nutrition in Childcare, the Best of Healthy Childcare. This publication includes 22 nutrition articles from the nearly 10 years of Healthy Childcare along with dozens and dozens of nutrition resources. Topics includes introducing new foods, foods for teethers and toddlers, the food pyramid, menu planning, food safety and sanitation, children and weight, and more. More information on Nutrition in Childcare can be found at
www.healthychild.net/nutritionpub
- New Beverage Guidance System Developed
About half the excess calories consumed by Americans come from beverages. Liquid calories account for 20 percent of the caloric intake of those aged 2 and older, according to research conducted at the University of North Carolina. At least half come from sweetened beverages, such as juice and soft drinks, whose consumption has climbed threefold, from an average of 50 calories per day in 1977 to nearly 150 calories per day in 2001. To help consumers make better choices, the researchers developed a new beverage guidance system.
Download:
Drink Up and Be Savvy [13k pdf file]
Beverage Guidance [40k pdf file]
- Understanding Nutrition: A Primer on Programs and Policies in California
This publication offers a statistical profile of the weight, dietary practices, and physical activity of Californians, a review of the relevant federal and state governmental structures and laws, a description of the programs supporting nutrition and community food security, and a review of the key policy issues designed to assist practitioners and policy leaders in advancing their basic knowledge of complex social service systems.
Download: Understanding Nutrition Primer [1.9MB pdf file]
- Ending Hunger in a Land of Plenty
The Food Research and Action Center's (FRAC) conference in February 2006 was titled Ending Hunger in a Land of Plenty: Experience Gained and an Agenda for the Future. Although the title is about ending hunger, the link between food insecurity and obesity is clear when framed as access to adequate and nutritious food availability for children in a variety of settings. See also the Publications and Products page for a number of useful resources, especially "Obesity, Food Insecurity and the Federal Nutrition Programs: Understanding the Linkages, November 2005". This paper is available for download at:
Download: Obesity, Food Insecurity and The Federal Child Nutrition Programs: Understanding The Linkages [128k pdf file]
- Obesity, Food Insecurity and the Federal Child Nutrition Programs: Understanding the Linkages
The Food Research and Action Center (FRAC) released in October 2005 an analysis of the dual impacts of food insecurity and obesity on low-income individuals, households and communities and the current and future positive role federal child nutrition programs can play in the prevention of these two public health problems.
Download: FRAC Federal Child Nutrition Programs [127k pdf file]
- FDA Provides Guidance on Whole Grains
The Food and Drug Administration has issued draft guidance on what the term "whole grain" may include. The guidance will assist manufacturers with what the FDA considers appropriate for food label statements related to "whole grain" content, helping consumers to make dietary choices based on a term that is consistent and reliable.
Download: FDA Provides Guidance on Whole Grains [20k pdf file]
- National Nutrition Month®
This is a nutrition education and information campaign sponsored annually by the American Dietetic Association. The campaign is designed to focus attention on the importance of making informed food choices and developing sound eating and physical activity habits. Visit the website for more information about the campaign and ideas and resources for activities in your community.
www.eatright.org/cps/rde/xchg/ada/hs.xsl/nutrition_4920_ENU_HTML.htm
- USDA School Nutrition Standards
The National Alliance for Nutrition and Activity has produced a long and a short version of a fact sheets on the proposed federal school foods bill. Also attached is a fact sheet on children's diets and health.
Download: NANA Fact Sheet - Long [240k pdf file]
Download: NANA Fact Sheet - Short [31k pdf file]
Download: Kids Diet and Health 2006 [19k pdf file]
- W.K. Kellogg Foundation - Food Systems and Rural Development
One of the four primary programming areas of the W.K. Kellogg foundation is Food Systems and Rural Development. The website has a wide array of information on this topic:
www.wkkf.org/default.aspx?tabid=54&CID=4&NID=17&LanguageID=0
A new resource available on the website is "How to Talk Rural Issues", a CD full of information for rural advocates about creating messages based on the way people currently think about rural America. Order the CD for free at:
www.wkkf.org/default.aspx?tabid=101&CID=4&CatID=4&ItemID=44232&
NID=20&LanguageID=0
Also available is a distilled breakdown in simple chart form of the rural frames currently in use available at:
Download: Currently Used Frames and Their Impact [64k pdf file]
- The Food Research and Action Center
FRAC is a leading national organization working to improve public policies to eradicate hunger and undernutrition in the United States. FRAC provides research, program support, public information and a clearinghouse for activities at the national, state and local levels to form a comprehensive strategy for reducing hunger in this country.
www.frac.org/index.html
- UDSA Team Nutrition
Team Nutrition is an program of the USDA Food and Nutrition Service. The website contains information for healthy schools, parents, and educators. Also check out the "resources" section for printed resources for a wide variety of audiences. Some materials are available in Spanish.
www.fns.usda.gov/tn/Default.htm
- USDA Food Pyramid
This website includes the United States Department of Agriculture's redesigned food pyramid and a number of interactive tools for using it. There is a special link for information for kids and much of the content is available in Spanish.
www.mypyramid.gov/
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