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The Partnership for Essential Nutrition

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The Partnership for Essential Nutrition is a broad-based group of non-profit consumer, nutrition and public health organizations formed in 2004 to promote programs, policies and research that will advance public understanding about the essentials of a nutritionally balanced diet for weight loss and beyond...

The Partnership is dedicated to providing guidance regarding the important contribution that all three macronutrients -- carbohydrates, protein and fat -- play in promoting good health and successful weight loss and to present the latest scientific evidence describing a healthful range for each.

Members of the Partnership for Essential Nutrition are:

• Alliance for Aging Research
• American Association of Diabetes Educators
• American Council on Science and Health
• American Institute for Cancer Research
• American Obesity Association
• Harvard Medical School
• MedStar Research Institute
• National Consumers League
• National Women's Health Resource Center
• Nutritional Sciences Program at the University of Washington
• Pennington Biomedical Research Center
• Shape Up America!
• Society for Women's Health Research
• University of California at Davis Department of Nutrition
• UCLA Center for Human Nutrition
• Yale-Griffin Prevention Research Center