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.

• Author: Leveraging Action to Support Dissemination of the Pregnancy Weight Gain Guidelines (Workshop) Washington, D.C.),
• TeilnehmendeR: Rodgers, Anne Brown,; Yaktine, Ann L.,; Institute of Medicine (U.S.). Food and Nutrition Board,; National Research Council (U.S.). Committee on Implementation of the IOM Pregnancy Weight Gain Guidelines,
• Place / Publishing House: Washington, District of Columbia : : National Academies Press,, [2013]; 2013
• Year of Publication: 2013
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (95 pages) :; illustrations (some color)
• Notes: "On March 1, 2013, the IOM and the NRC convened a 1-day workshop, in Washington, DC ... Leveraging Action to Support Dissemination of Pregnancy Weight Gain Guidelines."--Page 2.

"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...

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.