It is the position of the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics that all Americans aged 60 years and older receive appropriate nutrition care; have access to coordinated, comprehensive food and nutrition services; and receive the benefits of ongoing research to identify the most effective food and nutrition programs, interventions, and therapies. Health, physiologic, and functional changes associa...

It is the position of the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics that all Americans aged 60 years and older receive appropriate nutrition care; have access to coordinated, comprehensive food and nutrition services; and receive the benefits of ongoing research to identify the most effective food and nutrition programs, interventions, and therapies. Health, physiologic, and functional changes associa...

It is the position of the American Dietetic Association that systematic and sustained action is needed to achieve food and nutrition security for all in the United States. To eliminate food insecurity, interventions are needed, including adequate funding for and increased utilization of food and nutrition assistance programs, inclusion of food and nutrition education in such programs, and innov...

The dietary component of the Ten-State Nutrition Survey’ (TSNS) was designed to provide a description of food consumption for persons of many ages, including infants and small children 0 to 36 months old and adolescents 10 to 16 years old. Because the overall objective of the TSNS was to describe nutritional status of “groups” as contrasted to “individuals,” the 24-hour recall method was an acc...

The annual conference and scientific meeting of the Nutrition Society of New Zealand took place in Christchurch, New Zealand from 8–9 December 2016. The meeting comprised 2 plenary sessions, 2 concurrent oral sessions, and 17 posters, providing an opportunity for more than 43 nutritional scientists to present their research. Abstracts for plenary talks, oral presentations and posters are publis...

This paper explores the possibilities of the nutrition-sensitive agriculture approach in the context of the programs and actions towards promoting food and nutrition sovereignty and security in Brazil. To analyze the links between nutrition and agriculture, this paper presents the conceptual framework related to food and nutrition security, and stresses the correlations among concepts, institut...

background and objectives: food insecurity may be associated with poor nutrition, which in turn can increase the risk of adverse nutrition and health outcomes among infants and toddlers. this study was undertaken in 2008 to gain an insight of mothers' views on complementary feeding practices and food security. materials and methods: in this qualitative study, data were collected through 10...

BackgroundNutrition behaviors of adolescent girls is of serious health concerns. Although nutrition education interventions in Iran have met with some success, most of them could not promote nutrition behavioral changes. The aim of our study is to determine a school-based nutrition education intervention to improve adolescents’ nutrition behaviors and behavioral mediators based on the social co...