The National Academies Roundtable on Obesity Solutions hosted a public workshop in March 2024 to ...

For each nutrient this helpful reference presents what is known about how the nutrient functions ...

One-third of adults are now obese, and children's obesity rates have climbed from 5 to 17 percent...

Obesity is now an epidemic among children and adolescents in the United States. Nationwide, rough...

For its annual symposium in 1984, the Food and Nutrition Board posed the key nutritional question...

An estimated 90 percent of oncology patients in the United States receive treatment in outpatient...

This volume is the newest release in the authoritative series issued by the National Academy of S...

Accompanying CD-ROM contains appendices D-M.

Weight Gain During Pregnancy explores relationships between weight gain during prenancy and a var...

The Food and Nutrition Board of the Institute of Medicine (IOM), part of the National Academies, ...

How we produce and consume food has a bigger impact on Americans' well-being than any other human...

Infant formulas are unique because they are the only source of nutrition for many infants during ...

On June 21-22, 2017, the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine's Food and Nut...

The model for risk assessment of nutrients used to develop tolerable upper intake levels (ULs) is...

In the United States, people living in low-income neighborhoods frequently do not have access to ...

The childhood obesity epidemic and related health consequences are urgent public health problems....

'Review of WIC Food Packages: An Evaluation of White Potatoes in the Cash Value Voucher assesses ...

Malnutrition and obesity are both common among Americans over age 65. There are also a host of ot...

Obesity has come to the forefront of the American public health agenda. The increased attention h...

Federal guidance on nutrition and diet is intended to reflect the state of the science and delive...

Started in 1974, the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC...

'On December 5, 2017, the Food Forum hosted a public workshop titled Nutrigenomics and the Future...

Replacing 'Recommended Dietary Allowances', 'Dietary Reference Intakes' enlarges on the goal of a...

Since 1994 the Institute of Medicine's Food and Nutrition Board has been involved in developing a...

Iron Deficiency Anemia

The Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC) began 40 years ...

'In September 2016, the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine convened a work...

Dietary supplements are widely available through a rapidly expanding market of products commonly ...

Summary of a discussion forum that took place in Washington, DC on June 21-22, 2010.

The Food Forum of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine hosted a virtual ...