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1 Introduction
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... . The workshop was held January 29–30, 2020, in Washington, DC.1 SETTING THE STAGE FOR THE WORKSHOP In her welcoming remarks, Anna Maria Siega-Riz, dean and professor in the School of Public Health & Health Sciences at the University of M ­ assachusetts Amherst and chair of the workshop planning committee, 1  The planning committee's role was limited to planning the workshop and the Proceedings of a Workshop was prepared by the rapporteur as a factual account of what occurred at the workshop.
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... The report found that "data [were] lacking for use in developing strategies to identify lactating women who are at risk of depleting their own nutrient stores" (IOM, 1991, p.
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... our food supply and the demand for what types of foods women should be consuming." She also noted that the expansion of the Dietary Reference Intake model to include a new category of values based on chronic disease risk reduction merits further consideration for the type of evidence that needs to be gathered for these life stages. Given the changes in the scientific evidence, demographics, and nutritional landscape, Siega-Riz contended that Nutrition During Pregnancy and Nutrition During Lactation are now out of date and efforts are needed to provide current evidence to inform practitioners and women.
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... She also noted that the Academy is striving to increase support and scientific evidence related to breastfeeding, to help women achieve the duration appropriate for them and to better understand relationships with health outcomes. Steiber described a recently launched project looking at how registered dietitian nutritionists work with pregnant and lactating women and the associated maternal and infant outcomes.
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... Chapter 7 summarizes current evidence on maternal nutritional and ­ metabolic health status and the implications for breast milk composition, lactogenesis, and maternal chronic disease risk. Chapter 8 reviews the role of maternal intake on early-life programming.


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