US Department of Agriculture Summer Meals Program: What's Hot?
This article provides an overview of the US Department of Agriculture Summer Meals Program (SMP) and highlights opportunities to strengthen SMP's public health impacts. We also discuss initial SMP implications of 2 relevant policy provisions of the Families First Coronavirus Response Act (P.L. 116-127), signed into law on March 18, 2020. Ensuring access to summer meals among high-risk students can provide (1) supplemental nutrition assistance to families that helps address food insecurity during the summer months when there are no school meals, (2) healthy meals in structured settings that might help reduce obesity risk, a...
Source: Nutrition Today - May 1, 2020 Category: Nutrition Tags: CE Article Source Type: research
Properties of Ultraprocessed Foods That Can Drive Excess Intake
Recent research suggests that ultraprocessed foods, particularly as defined by the NOVA system, facilitate overconsumption and may contribute to the development of obesity. Questions remain as to what properties of ultraprocessed foods are driving excess intake. Ultraprocessed foods tend to be high in energy density and low in volume, easy to eat rapidly, and highly palatable. Studies indicate that these properties are likely contributors to the overconsumption of ultraprocessed foods, rather than the processing per se. Indeed, processing can be used to modify food properties such as energy density and texture to help redu...
Source: Nutrition Today - May 1, 2020 Category: Nutrition Tags: Nutrition Science Source Type: research
NEWSbreaks
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Source: Nutrition Today - May 1, 2020 Category: Nutrition Tags: DEPARTMENTS: Newsbreaks Source Type: research
NUTRITION Gazette
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Source: Nutrition Today - May 1, 2020 Category: Nutrition Tags: DEPARTMENTS: Nutrition Gazette Source Type: research
Today's Science Informs Tomorrow's Recommendations: Hear It First at Nutrition 2020 Live Online
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Source: Nutrition Today - May 1, 2020 Category: Nutrition Tags: DEPARTMENTS: News From ASN Source Type: research
Diet Quality Indexes and Health
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Source: Nutrition Today - March 1, 2020 Category: Nutrition Tags: CE Test Source Type: research
Veterinary Pet Supplements and Nutraceuticals
Veterinary pet supplements and nutraceuticals are widely used by dog, cat, and horse owners across the United States, generating millions of dollars in revenue for manufacturers. Despite the widespread use of these veterinary products, oversight and regulation remain limited as compared with human dietary supplement regulations. This review describes the current regulation, quality control, safety, and efficacy of pet supplements and nutraceuticals targeted toward dogs, cats, and horses. (Source: Nutrition Today)
Source: Nutrition Today - March 1, 2020 Category: Nutrition Tags: Comparative Nutrition Source Type: research
Consensus Health and Nutrition Communication: The New “Feeling Rules”
Food, health, and other science communicators have, for years, been concerned about the public's trust in science—especially, with the fierce opposition to some believed-to-be-settled scientific consensus regarding vaccine safety, global climate change, the safety of food biotechnology, and assorted nutrition issues. Experts have struggled to understand why significant segments of the public have continued to resist consensus conclusions. The present article investigates the impact on science communications of a broader, decades-long, societal decline in public trust in most social institutions. The authors investigate t...
Source: Nutrition Today - March 1, 2020 Category: Nutrition Tags: Nutrition Communication Source Type: research
The Balancing Act—Nutrition and Sustainability: Understanding the Complexities, Challenges, and Opportunities
This article examines conflicts of the sustainability conversation between the “haves” and the “have nots” when it comes to food and especially who should eat more and who less and discusses the challenges of research studies when measuring the impact of diet on environment. Even though the reduction of animal protein intake is the only predictive outcome of many modeling studies, there are others, such as how human health outcomes are evaluated in concert with environmental health and economics, that are equally important factors that must be assessed, especially when comparing studies with each other. The one con...
Source: Nutrition Today - March 1, 2020 Category: Nutrition Tags: Food, Nutrition, and Sustainability Source Type: research
Food System Sustainability: A Dairy Perspective
Sustainability in food systems has often been oversimplified. Many criteria are required to accurately assess the sustainability of foods, including multiple nutrition, economic, environmental, and social concerns. The US dairy industry is working to develop the methods and data needed to understand the benefits and impacts of dairy production and consumption from a food systems perspective to improve sustainability. (Source: Nutrition Today)
Source: Nutrition Today - March 1, 2020 Category: Nutrition Tags: Food, Nutrition, and Sustainability Source Type: research
An Overlap Between “Ultraprocessed” Foods and the Preexisting Nutrient Rich Foods Index?
The category of “ultraprocessed” foods in the NOVA food classification scheme is ostensibly based on industrial processing. We compared NOVA category assignments with the preexisting family of Nutrient Rich Food (NRF) indices, first developed in 2004. The NRF indices are composed of 2 subscores: the positive NR based on protein, fiber, and vitamins and minerals, and the negative LIM subscore based on saturated fat, added sugars, and sodium. The 378 foods that were components of the widely used Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center food frequency questionnaire were assigned to NOVA categories and scored using multiple NRF indic...
Source: Nutrition Today - March 1, 2020 Category: Nutrition Tags: Food and Nutrition Source Type: research
Diet Quality Indexes and Health
This article examines the literature to determine what information is available on the ability of any index to predict important outcomes such as mortality. Articles were selected if they compared 2 or more indexes or if they described outcomes for any index related to the UK Office of Communication nutrient profiling algorithm or the recently developed NOVA index. Few comparative articles were found. All of the indexes predicted mortality, heart disease, or cancer to some extent. The associations were small and could be due to residual confounding or attenuation due to measurement error. Given the similarity in results ac...
Source: Nutrition Today - March 1, 2020 Category: Nutrition Tags: CE Article Source Type: research
Newsbreaks
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Source: Nutrition Today - March 1, 2020 Category: Nutrition Tags: DEPARTMENTS: Newsbreaks Source Type: research
Nutrition Gazette
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Source: Nutrition Today - March 1, 2020 Category: Nutrition Tags: DEPARTMENTS: Nutrition Gazette Source Type: research
Last Chance to Register for Nutrition 2020 With Advance Registration Rates
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Source: Nutrition Today - March 1, 2020 Category: Nutrition Tags: DEPARTMENTS: News From ASN Source Type: research
