Nutrition For more information on youth and obsity please visit Youth Policy Summit page. Keystone Forum on Away-From-Home Foods: Opportunities for Preventing Overweight and Obesity For more information, visit Obesity Forum page. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has asked The Keystone Center to design, convene, and facilitate a multi-stakeholder forum seeking collaborative solutions to key aspects of the obesity epidemic. The substantive focus is on restaurant and carry-out foods, including foods sold in schools, and the needs of children more generally in prevention of overweight and obesity. The project aims to convene leaders from the public, private and sectors to identify potential interventions by all participants, and to develop recommendations for the implementation of such measures. For more information, please contact Brad Sperber at 202-452-1590.

The Keystone Center Youth Policy Summit Student Agreement, Child and Adolescent Nutrition in America
June 2005 | Report available on-line

For more information, visit Youth Policy Summit page

Organized by The Keystone Center and the National Consortium for Specialized Secondary Schools of Mathematics, Science and Technology, 40 students from 10 specialized math and science schools across seven states met for a week in June 2005 to engage in a Youth Policy Summit on child and adolescent nutrition in America. Students involved in the program spent months researching the topic of adolescent nutrition and obesity in the United States, including the current state of the problem in their own schools by surveying students, parents and administrators. They also researched the social and scientific aspects of the issue, current policies, and different views on solutions. Following months of technical preparation and consultation with medical and scientific experts, the students met in Keystone, Colorado. 

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Sharing Risk and Reward, Public-Private Collaboration to Eliminate Micronutrient Malnutrition. Report of the Forum on Food Fortification, International Dialogue on Micronutrient Malnutrition, Ottawa, Canada

December 1995 | Report # 58 | Call 970-513-5835 to order reports

Due to iron, iodine and vitamin deficiencies, 30 % of the world’s population are unable to achieve their full mental and physical potential. While micronutrient deficiencies depress gross national product by as much as 5 % annually, a comprehensive and sustainable solution would cost less than one-third of one percent of the GNP. Fortification of commonly eaten foods with micronutrients offers a cost-effective solution that can reach large populations. The public sector, which has the mandate and responsibility to improve the health of populations, and the private sector, which has the experience and expertise in food production and marketing, can collaborate to make fortified foods widely available. More than 120 public and private sector leaders discussed collaborative approaches to the elimination of micronutrient malnutrition and the need to establish national dialogues and other action-oriented linkages.

The Final Report of The Keystone National Policy Dialogue on Food, Nutrition and Health, Keystone, CO, and Washington, DC

March 1996 | Report # 59 | Call 970-513-5835 to order reports

This dialogue was designed to reach consensus recommendations on how to achieve the goals of the Nutrition Labeling and Education Act of 1990 and also focused on several specific diet-disease relationships for possible authorization of health claims. Several of the report’s recommendations have already been adopted by the Food and Drug Administration of the United States. 

Diet has a significant impact on health. Research strongly suggests that the onset of disease could be delayed and the quality of life could be enhanced with improvements in diet. Diet is believed to have a major impact on several leading causes of death in the United States, including heart disease, cancer, stroke, diabetes mellitus, and atherosclerosis. Experts agree that people can and should take personal responsibility for improving their diets to reduce their risk of these diet-related diseases. Assisting individuals in this process by providing information about certain foods is a major focus of this report.

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