Launched in 1992, the USDA's Food Guide Pyramid is scheduled to be revised. How should this new Pyramid look based on science? This timely forum brings together scientists, policy makers, dietitians and food service directors to discuss the building and implementation of a Healthier Food Guide Pyramid. The first session will feature researchers who will be presenting the scientific basis of the proposed changes with responses from scientific colleagues in the Greater Boston area. The second session will feature "doers" who have successfully achieved some of these proposed healthier recommendations.
On demand video is now available:
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SESSION I
(1 hour, 30 minutes)
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SESSION I, RESPONSE PANEL
(40 minutes)
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SESSION II
(1 hour, 15 minutes)
Tuesday, September
9, 2003 from 2:00-5:30p.m.
Snyder Auditorium, Kresge G-1
677 Huntington Avenue
Boston, MA 02115
Co-Chairs:
- Lilian Cheung, D.Sc., R.D., Director of Health Promotion and Communication, Department of Nutrition, Harvard School of Public Health
- Kathy McManus, M.S., R.D., Director of Nutrition, Brigham & Women's Hospital
Opening Remarks:
- Barry R. Bloom, Ph.D., Dean, Harvard School of Public Health
Moderators:
- Allan Walker, M.D., Conrad Taff Professor of Pediatrics, Harvard Medical School and Children's Hospital Boston
- Abraham Thomas, M.D., Medical Director, Program for Weight Management, Brigham and Women's Hospital
- George Blackburn, M.D., S. Daniel Abraham Associate Professor of Nutrition, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
Featured Speakers (in order of presentation):
- David Ludwig, M.D., Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, Children's Hospital Boston
- Frank Sacks, M.D., Professor of Cardiovascular Disease Prevention, Department of Nutrition, Harvard School of Public Health
- Stephanie Smith-Warner, D.Sc., Assistant Professor, Department of Nutrition, Harvard School of Public Health
- Frank Hu, M.D., Ph.D., Associate Professor of Nutrition and Epidemiology, Department of Nutrition, Harvard School of Public Health
- Walter Willett, M.D., Dr.P.H., Chair, Department of Nutrition and Fredrick John Stare Professor of Epidemiology and Nutrition, Harvard School of Public Health
- Representative Peter J. Koutoujian, House Chair, Joint Committee on Health Care
- Alison Forrest, Food Service Director, Brewster Pierce Memorial Elementary School, Huntington, Vermont
- Kathy McManus, M.S., R.D., Director of Nutrition, Brigham & Women's Hospital
- Roger Berkowitz, President, Legal Sea Foods
Featured Panelists:
- Alice Lichtenstein, D.Sc., Gershoff Professor of Nutrition Science and Policy, Tufts University, Jean Mayer USDA Human Nutrition Research Center on Aging
- Eleftheria Maratos-Flier, M.D., Head of Obesity Program, Joslin Diabetes Center
- Alexander Leaf, M.D., Jackson Professor of Clinical Medicine, Emeritus, Harvard Medical School and Massachusetts General Hospital
- Lee Kaplan, M.D., Director, The Weight Center, Massachusetts General Hospital
Recommendations to improve the current USDA Food Guide Pyramid have been elaborated in the publication by Marjorie McCullough et al (AJCN 2002:76:1261-71).
