Leveraging action to support dissemination of the pregnancy weight gain guidelines : workshop summary / Committee on Implementation of the IOM Pregnancy Weight Gain Guidelines, Board on Children, Youth, and Families, Food and Nutrition Board ; Anne Brown Rodgers and Ann L. Yaktine, rapporteurs ; Institute of Medicine and National Research Council of the National Academies.

"Since 1990, when the last guidelines for weight gain during pregnancy were issued, the average body weight of women entering their childbearing years has increased considerably, with a greater percentage of these women now classified as overweight or obese. Women of childbearing age are also m...

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Corporate Author: Leveraging Action to Support Dissemination of the Pregnancy Weight Gain Guidelines (Workshop) Washington, D.C.)
Other Authors: Rodgers, Anne Brown (rapporteur.), Yaktine, Ann L. (rapporteur.)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Washington, District of Columbia : National Academies Press, [2013]
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • Keynote addresses
  • Session 1: communicating the preganancy weight gain guidelines
  • Session 2: Panel discussion: what are we doing to support behavior change?
  • Session 3: implementing the guidelines
  • Presentation on the First Thousand Days program
  • Session 4: collaborating for action
  • Final thoughts.