Release of IOM Hunger and Obesity Workshop Summary
Washington, DC - March 17, 2011 - Today the Institute of Medicine (IOM) released Hunger and Obesity: Understanding a Food Insecurity Paradigm - Workshop Summary. This document summarizes information from an IOM public workshop held in November 2010 in Washington, DC that explored the relationship between food insecurity and obesity in the United States, the current state of research on this issue, and new data and analyses needed to further understand and address this complicated relationship.
FRAC is committed to addressing the obesity crisis as it affects low-income people and as it interacts with hunger and the federal nutrition programs. FRAC’s early groundbreaking analyses helped reveal the paradox of hunger and obesity, and FRAC is leading efforts to develop common-sense solutions to both.
A number of experts in the field presented at the IOM workshop, including FRAC’s President Jim Weill. During the workshop, Weill pointed out a variety of positive impacts the federal nutrition programs have on nutrition and health. He pointed also to the types of research needed to deepen our understanding of the intersection of hunger, poverty, obesity, and the federal nutrition programs.
FRAC’s website features a section dedicated to focusing exclusively on the interconnections among obesity, poverty, and hunger. It provides extensive information and analysis on the causes and consequences of obesity; latest local, state, and national obesity data; paradox of hunger and obesity; and role of the federal nutrition programs in combating obesity.
FRAC’s website also includes a number of publications related to obesity, healthy eating, and hunger. For example, FRAC Focus: Obesity and Poverty is FRAC’s new periodical e-newsletter focused on obesity as it relates to low-income children and adults, looking at the intersection of obesity, income, food insecurity, the federal nutrition programs, and federal food and nutrition policy. Each issue highlights relevant research, reports, resources, and tools. The next issue will be released in the coming weeks. To subscribe to this e-publication, click here.
Contact Heather Hartline-Grafton (hhartline-grafton@frac.org, 202-986-2200 x3017) to learn more about FRAC’s work to address obesity as it impacts low-income people and the federal nutrition programs.
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