Food and Nutrition Board
Established in 1940, the Food and Nutrition Board studies issues of national and global importance on the safety and adequacy of the U.S. food supply; establishes principles and guidelines for good nutrition; and provides authoritative judgment on the relationships among food intake, nutrition, and health maintenance and disease prevention.
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Prepregnancy BMI and Gestational Weight Gain: New Evidence, Emerging Innovations, and Policy Implications: Proceedings of a Workshop
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·2026
The 2009 National Academies report, Weight Gain During Pregnancy: Reexamining the Guidelines, concluded that there was insufficient evidence to support weight gain recommendations for women in higher classes of obesity or those who are underweight. Since that time, the prevalence of obesity among wo...
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