Nutrition Policy

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  Subject Areas on Research

  • A diet quality index for American preschoolers based on current dietary intake recommendations and an indicator of energy balance. 
  • A public health perspective on healthy lifestyles and public-private partnerships for global childhood obesity prevention. 
  • Adolescents involved in weight-related and power team sports have better eating patterns and nutrient intakes than non-sport-involved adolescents. 
  • Alternative Dietary Patterns for Americans: Low-Carbohydrate Diets. 
  • An accountability evaluation for the industry's responsible use of brand mascots and licensed media characters to market a healthy diet to American children. 
  • An observational study of consumer use of fast-food restaurant drive-through lanes: implications for menu labelling policy. 
  • Assessing Diet Quality in a Racially and Ethnically Diverse Cohort of Low-income Toddlers. 
  • Assessment of nutrition and physical activity environments in family child care homes: modification and psychometric testing of the Environment and Policy Assessment and Observation. 
  • Association of Survival With Adherence to the American Cancer Society Nutrition and Physical Activity Guidelines for Cancer Survivors After Colon Cancer Diagnosis: The CALGB 89803/Alliance Trial. 
  • Availability of foods in high schools: is there cause for concern? 
  • Building evidence for environmental and policy solutions to prevent childhood obesity: the healthy eating research program. 
  • Can food and addiction change the game? 
  • Carbohydrate restriction is effective in improving atherogenic dyslipidemia even in the absence of weight loss. 
  • Child care as an untapped setting for obesity prevention: state child care licensing regulations related to nutrition, physical activity, and media use for preschool-aged children in the United States. 
  • Commentary on nutrition standards in the national school lunch and breakfast programs. 
  • Comparing Diet Quality Indices for Low-Income 24-Month-Old Toddlers: Exploring Changes Driven by 2020-2025 Dietary Guidelines for Americans. 
  • Comparison of dietary and lifestyle habits among stage III and metastatic colorectal cancer patients: findings from CALGB 89803 and CALGB 80405. 
  • Comparison of dietary intake of overweight postpartum mothers practicing breastfeeding or formula feeding. 
  • Comparisons of Four Diet Quality Indexes to Define Single Meal Healthfulness. 
  • Creating healthy food and eating environments: policy and environmental approaches. 
  • Determining optimal gestational weight gain in a multiethnic Asian population. 
  • Development and Application of a Total Diet Quality Index for Toddlers. 
  • Dietary intakes of Native American children: findings from the pathways feasibility study. 
  • Dietary intakes of nutrients thought to modify cardiovascular risk from three groups of American Indians: The Strong Heart Dietary Study, Phase II. 
  • Dietary protein adequacy and lower body versus whole body resistive training in older humans. 
  • Effectiveness of school food environment policies on children's dietary behaviors: A systematic review and meta-analysis. 
  • Elevated calcium requirements for women and unique approaches to improving calcium adherence. 
  • Evaluation of consumer understanding of different front-of-package nutrition labels, 2010-2011. 
  • Evaluation of diet quality and weight status of children from a low socioeconomic urban environment supports "at risk" classification. 
  • Evaluation of the Healthy Eating Index-2005. 
  • Examining the nutritional quality of breakfast cereals marketed to children. 
  • Exercise and nutritional needs of elderly people: effects on muscle and bone. 
  • Experimental research on the relation between food price changes and food-purchasing patterns: a targeted review. 
  • Factors influencing food choices of adolescents: findings from focus-group discussions with adolescents. 
  • Food advertisements during children's Saturday morning television programming: are they consistent with dietary recommendations? 
  • Food environments in university dorms: 20,000 calories per dorm room and counting. 
  • Food group sources of nutrients in the dietary patterns of the DASH-Sodium trial. 
  • Food store types, availability, and cost of foods in a rural environment. 
  • Head and neck cancers, version 2.2013. Featured updates to the NCCN guidelines. 
  • Healthy Eating Index-2015 Scores Vary by Types of Food Outlets in the United States. 
  • How much vitamin D should I take? 
  • Improving maternal and child nutrition in China: an analysis of nutrition policies and programs initiated during the 2000-2015 Millennium Development Goals era and implications for achieving the Sustainable Development Goals. 
  • Influence of school competitive food and beverage policies on obesity, consumption, and availability: a systematic review. 
  • Innovative legal approaches to address obesity. 
  • Is the prevalence of dehydration among community-dwelling older adults really low? Informing current debate over the fluid recommendation for adults aged 70+years. 
  • Is there a best body mass index for older adults? Moving closer to evidence-based recommendations regarding "overweight," health, and mortality. 
  • Leveraging Implementation Science in the Public Health Response to COVID-19 : Child Food Insecurity and Federal Nutrition Assistance Programs. 
  • Lower body versus whole body resistive exercise training and energy requirements of older men and women. 
  • Micronutrient deficiencies in nursing homes: should clinical intervention await a research consensus? 
  • Moderate consumption of white and fortified wine is associated with reduced odds of diabetic retinopathy. 
  • Nine out of 10 food advertisements shown during Saturday morning children's television programming are for foods high in fat, sodium, or added sugars, or low in nutrients. 
  • Nudging the obese: a UK-US consideration. 
  • Nutritional risk and the metabolic syndrome in women: opportunities for preventive intervention from the Framingham Nutrition Study. 
  • Nutritional status of teenage female competitive figure skaters. 
  • Nutritional supplements for older adults: review and recommendations-part I. 
  • Obesity: a public health approach. 
  • Partial Meal Replacement Plan and Quality of the Diet at 1 Year: Action for Health in Diabetes (Look AHEAD) Trial. 
  • Personalized medicine in women's obesity prevention and treatment: implications for research, policy and practice. 
  • Poor nutrition on the menu: children's meals at America's top chain restaurants. 
  • Potential Policy Approaches to Address Diet-Related Diseases. 
  • Potential problems with increasing serving sizes on the Nutrition Facts label. 
  • Primer on US Food and Nutrition Policy and Public Health: Food Assistance 
  • Primer on US Food and Nutrition Policy and Public Health: Food Sustainability 
  • Primer on US Food and Nutrition Policy and Public Health: Protect School Nutrition Standards 
  • Promoting healthy eating and physical activity in adolescents. 
  • Pros and cons of proposed interventions to promote healthy eating. 
  • Protein nutrition, exercise and aging. 
  • Reducing sugary drink consumption: New York City's approach. 
  • Relationships between vitamin and mineral supplement use, dietary intake, and dietary adequacy among adolescents. 
  • Schools and obesity prevention: creating school environments and policies to promote healthy eating and physical activity. 
  • State but not district nutrition policies are associated with less junk food in vending machines and school stores in US public schools. 
  • State school nutrition and physical activity policy environments and youth obesity. 
  • Suboptimal nutritional intake for hypertension control in 4 ethnic groups. 
  • Supplemental Parenteral Nutrition: Review of the Literature and Current Nutrition Guidelines. 
  • Supporting Healthy Eating: Synergistic Effects of Nutrition Education Paired with Policy, Systems, and Environmental Changes. 
  • The 2015 Dietary Guidelines Advisory Committee Scientific Report: Development and Major Conclusions. 
  • The Diet Quality Index-Revised: a tool to promote and evaluate dietary change among older cancer survivors enrolled in a home-based intervention trial. 
  • The PREMIER intervention helps participants follow the Dietary Approaches to Stop Hypertension dietary pattern and the current Dietary Reference Intakes recommendations. 
  • The School Food Environment and Obesity Prevention: Progress Over the Last Decade. 
  • The School Nutrition and Meal Cost Study-I: Overview of Findings Related to Improving Diet Quality, Weight, and Disparities in US Children and Policy Implications. 
  • The family child care home environment and children's diet quality. 
  • The food industry and self-regulation: standards to promote success and to avoid public health failures. 
  • The impact of food prices on consumption: a systematic review of research on the price elasticity of demand for food. 
  • The need for bold action to prevent adolescent obesity. 
  • The perils of ignoring history: Big Tobacco played dirty and millions died. How similar is Big Food? 
  • The third School Nutrition Dietary Assessment Study: findings and policy implications for improving the health of US children. 
  • Unprocessed Red Meat and Processed Meat Consumption. 
  • What you and your patients need to know about vitamin D. 
  • Where people shop is not associated with the nutrient quality of packaged foods for any racial-ethnic group in the United States. 
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  Keywords of People

  • Kay, Melissa, Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, Pediatrics, General Pediatrics and Adolescent Health
  • Wilson, Norbert Lance Weston, Professor of Food, Economics and Community, Divinity School
  • Wischmeyer, Paul Edmund, Professor of Anesthesiology, Anesthesiology, Critical Care Medicine