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Judith S. Stern Nutrition Recipient 1994-1995 Professor Stern, an international authority on the causes of obesity, has for more than 20 years given her time to help formulate public policy related to nutrition on a national level. She chaired the Institute of Medicine committee charged with developing various criteria for evaluating weight-control methods. The committee reported that obesity in the United States is at epidemic proportions. From 1983-1986, Professor Stern was a member of the U.S. Dietary Guidelines Committee of the U.S. Department of Agriculture which was responsible for establishing national nutritional guidelines. In 1989-1990, she was appointed to the Nutrition Labeling Committee, charged with establishing the guidelines for current labeling requirements on packaged foods. She has also been active in workshops, study sections and search committees for the National Institutes of Health. In 1998 she co-founded a lay advocacy group, the American Obesity Association (www.obesity.org) and she is Vice President. In an effort of supply the general public with accurate nutrition information, Professor Stern has written dozens of articles for the lay press. And despite her daunting schedule of academic and government service commitments, she consistently makes room for interviews requested by print and broadcast journalists. |
