This review focuses on dietary intake and dietary supplement use among the U.S. population age 1–74 based on four National Health and Nutrition Examination Surveys conducted in 1971–74, 1976–80, 1988–94, and 1999–2000.

Infants as young as 7 months of age showed food patterns that have been observed in older children and adults. From 18% to 33% of infants and toddlers between ages 7 and 24 months consumed no discrete servings of vegetables, and 23% to 33% consumed no fruits.

Making positive changes in the types of foods available to children in schools has the potential to have a substantial impact on their dietary intakes and the prevalence of childhood obesity. Although federal regulation requires that school districts have policies about all foods offered on...

Summary for publication Addressing the Epidemic of Childhood Obesity Through School-Based Interventions What Has Been Done and Where Do We Go from Here

Identifies major contributors to children's intake of MyPyramid food groups, and strategies for improving the quality of children's diets.

Schools are ideal settings for implementing programs to prevent and control childhood obesity. The authors review the evidence on the effectiveness of school-based interventions; offer suggestions for improvements based on the existing evidence, findings from related research, and...

Reviews Tennessee's experience setting, monitoring, and updating capitation rates for Medicaid managed behavioral health care and draws lessons for other states. Finds that the initial behavioral health rate was inadequate, primarily because of the way available information was used, rather than...

A study recently published concluded that populations with different types of public health insurance have rates of receiving treatment for a substance use disorder that range from two to four times greater than the privately insured. The study was funded by the Substance Abuse and Mental Health...