Nutrition-related chronic disease

Nutrition-related chronic diseases, including cardiovascular diseases, obesity, and diabetes, among others are becoming increasingly common in the developing world as a result of changes in diet and physical activity. AED recognizes that prevention of these conditions is most effectively addressed by a range of integrated policies and programs. Prevention starts with achieving optimal fetal and infant growth, and continues throughout the life course with the promotion of healthy diets and active living at each stage. There is a strong need in both developed and developing countries to put in place policies and guidelines to address nutrition related chronic diseases. As a way to inform policy makers and demonstrate the need for integrated policies and programs, AED has developed a computer-based advocacy tool, PROFILES, to quantify the functional consequences of obesity as a causal variable in relation to the health care costs, productivity costs, and mortality associated with different chronic diseases. AED programs in the developing world build on our extensive experience working on these same issues in U.S.-based programs.

Click to learn more about AED's Nutrition-related chronic disease projects:

• Calories In: Consumer Research and Message Development
• Health Communication Partnership (HCP)
• HEALTHY: A Middle School Diabetes Prevention Program
• Marketing Healthier Food to Young People
• Media-Smart Youth
• Migrant and Seasonal Head Start TA
• PROFILES
• Promoting Fruit and Vegetable Consumption Among Tweens
• The Global Nutrition Advocacy and Messages on Nutrition Project
• We Can! (Ways to Enhance Children's Activity and Nutrition)

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