Nutrition & Public Health

Public-health nutrition is contending with the ultra-processed foods (UPF) debate sparked by the NOVA classification and Hall et al. controlled-feeding trials, alongside the GLP-1 obesity revolution that is reshaping food consumption patterns at population scale. The track will cover sodium reduction policy (FDA voluntary targets, UK reformulation), front-of-pack labelling (Nutri-Score, US FDA proposed scheme), peanut oral immunotherapy (Palforzia) and omalizumab for multi-food allergy management. Sessions will also examine large-scale fortification (folate, vitamin D, iron), the Mediterranean and EAT-Lancet planetary health diets, and food-as-medicine produce prescription programs covered under Medicare and Medicaid pilots.