title: Food and Nutrition Board update: What do SNAP allotments, physical fitness, and obesity prevention have in common?
abstract: The Institute of Medicine's Food and Nutrition Board had a productive year, with important expert committee reports on the Supplemental Food Assistance Program, physical fitness, and accelerating obesity prevention efforts that provided grounding for dietary guidance and nutrition policies and programs. This summary describes Food and Nutrition Board activities, including current thinking on dietary reference intakes. The summary also highlights consensus reports on defining and measuring Supplemental Food Assistance Program benefit adequacy and on physical fitness and health outcomes in youth. In addition, current and new activities related to obesity prevention and care are addressed. What do these activities have in common? All adhere to the Institute of Medicine report model by filling gaps and by being analytical, evidence-based, and challenging.
authors.affiliation: Formerly of Food and Nutrition Board, Institute of Medicine, Washington, DC.
authors.forename: Linda D
authors.initials: LD
authors.lastname: Meyers
authors.forename: Suzanne P
authors.initials: SP
authors.lastname: Murphy
authors.forename: Ann L
authors.initials: AL
authors.lastname: Yaktine
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D041923:Adolescent Development; D000328:Adult; D002170:Canada; D002648:Child; D002657:Child Development; D003226:Congresses as Topic; D019317:Evidence-Based Medicine; D063105:Food Assistance / Q000639:trends; D006293:Health Promotion; D006801:Humans; D015969:National Academies of Science, Engineering, and Medicine, U.S., Health and Medicine Division; D052756:Nutritional Sciences / Q000379:methods / Q000639:trends; D009765:Obesity / Q000517:prevention & control*; D010809:Physical Fitness; D064167:Recommended Dietary Allowances; D012958:Societies, Scientific; D014481:United States