Traditional food security strategies are reviewed and generally found to have a weak impact on lowering child malnutrition. Unless these programs are properly targeted and linked to employment and micro-credit opportunities for women, they are unlikely to be effective or sustainable. The links between food policy and nutrition security require greater attention to dietary quality through agricu...

BACKGROUND There is a growing interest in studying the influence of child-care center policies on the health of preschool-aged children. OBJECTIVE To develop a reliable and valid instrument to quantitatively evaluate the quality of written nutrition and physical activity policies at child-care centers. DESIGN Reliability and validation study. A 65-item measure was created to evaluate five a...

Food and nutrition policies and programs form an integral part of the country’s development plans. In this respect, in the Country Programme of implementation of the Millennium Development Goals, the Food and Nutrition Council was tasked to establish a Food and Nutrition Surveillance system, which will provide indicators to monitor the achievement of these Goals, in particular the 1 goal of era...

Traditional food security strategies are reviewed and generally found to have a weak impact on lowering child malnutrition. Unless these programs are properly targeted and linked to employment and micro-credit opportunities for women, they are unlikely to be effective or sustainable. The links between food policy and nutrition security require greater attention to dietary quality through agricu...

Note. This original form of this rebuttal was submitted to Science on 3 March 2017 (limited to 300 words as per Science editorial policy) but rejected on 13 March 2017. Herein, we elaborate on our original Science submission in order to more fully address the issue without the length limitations. This rebuttal is followed by the list of the signatories who supported our original submission.

• Forewords • Timeline • Introduction • Section 1: The interaction between diet and public health 1.1: Changing patterns of mortality in the UK 1.2: Changing patterns of disease and links with diet • Section 2: The role of government 2.1: Overview of government departments related to food and nutrition 2.2: Recommendations for healthy diets 2.3: Nutrition-related health policies • Section 3: Tr...

INTRODUCTION Most students in grades kindergarten through 12 have access to foods and beverages during the school day outside the federal school meal programs, which are called competitive foods. At the time of this study, competitive foods were subject to minimal federal nutrition standards, but states could implement additional standards. Our analysis examined the association between school n...