LIVE Well Act

To amend section 28 of the Food and Nutrition Act of 2008 to include eating disorders prevention within the nutrition education and obesity prevention grant program and the local wellness program; and for other purposes. 1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Long-term InVestment in Education for Wellness Act LIVE Well Act 2. Findings Congress finds the following: (1) Eating disorders affect 30 million Americans during their lifetime and have the highest mortality rate of any psychiatric illness. (2) Eating disorders affect people of all body sizes, ages, races, sexual orientations, ethnicities, and socioeconomic statuses. (3) Eating disorders are complex, biologically based serious mental illnesses that include the specific disorders of anorexia nervosa, bulimia nervosa, binge eating disorder, avoidant-restrictive food intake disorder, and other specified feeding or eating disorders. (4) Eighty percent of people with an eating disorder are normal or higher weight, and 81 percent of people with binge eating disorder are clinically higher weight or have obesity. (5) One in 4 people seeking obesity treatment has an underlying eating disorder that is often undiagnosed. (6) Children in higher weight bodies are more likely to engage in unhealthy weight-control measures, and 2/3 (7) Research shows that focusing on weight talk, weight stigma, and dieting does not result in long-term reduction in weight; 2/3 (8) Studies show that shifting prevention focuses from weight and dieting towards long-term health practices, including a focus on body positivity, nutrition, decreasing weight-based bullying or harassment, and physical activity, without a focus on weight, BMI testing, or negative weight talk, reduces risk factors for populations affected by eating disorders and populations affected by obesity. 3. Eating disorders prevention (a) Amendments Section 28 of the Food and Nutrition Act of 2008 ( 7 U.S.C. 2036a (1) in the matter preceding paragraph (1) of subsection (a), by striking and , eating disorders prevention, or (2) by amending subsection (b) to read as follows: (b) Grant Programs The Secretary, acting through the Director of the National Institute of Food and Agriculture, in consultation with the Administrator of the Food and Nutrition Service, shall implement an evidence-based nutrition education, eating disorders prevention, or obesity prevention program for eligible individuals that promotes healthy food choices and physical activity with a focus on long-term health practices. , (3) in subsection (c)— (A) in the heading by striking and , eating disorders prevention, or (B) in paragraph (1)— (i) by inserting evidence-based deliver (ii) by striking and , eating disorders prevention, or (C) in paragraph (2)— (i) in subparagraph (A) by striking and , eating disorders prevention, or (ii) in subparagraph (B)— (I) in clause (iii) by striking and (II) in clause (iv) by striking the period at the end and inserting ; and (III) by adding at the end the following: (v) ensure that interventions encourage screening for eating disorders and include long-term health practices. , (D) in paragraph (3)— (i) in subparagraph (A)— (I) in clause (i) by inserting eating disorders prevention and screening, education, (II) in clause (iii) by inserting and long-term health practices nutrition (ii) in subparagraph (B)— (I) in the matter preceding clause (i)— (aa) by inserting and eating disorders prevention, education (bb) by inserting , Assistant Secretary of the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (II) in clause (ii) by inserting and eating disorders education (E) in paragraph (4)— (i) by striking and education (ii) by inserting , eating disorders prevention, or nutrition education (F) in paragraph (6)— (i) by striking and nutrition education (ii) by inserting , eating disorders prevention, or nutrition education (G) in paragraph (7)(C)— (i) by striking and nutrition education (ii) by inserting , eating disorders prevention, or nutrition education (H) in paragraph (8) by striking and , eating disorders prevention, or (I) in paragraph (9)(A)(i)— (i) by striking and the nutrition education (ii) by inserting , eating disorders prevention, or nutrition education (4) in subsection (d)— (A) in paragraph (1) by striking and , eating disorders prevention, or (B) in paragraph (3)— (i) in subparagraph (A) by striking and , eating disorders prevention, or (ii) in subparagraph (B) by striking and , eating disorders prevention, or (C) by adding at the end the following: (4) Authorization of Appropriations There is authorized to be appropriated such sums as may be necessary to carry out this section. , and (5) by adding at the end the following: (f) Definition In this section the term long-term health practices . 4. Local wellness grants (a) In general Section 9A of the Richard B. Russell National School Lunch Act ( 42 U.S.C. 1758b (1) in subsection (b)— (A) in paragraph (1), by inserting promotion of long-term health practices (as defined in subsection (f) of section 28 of the Food and Nutrition Act of 2008 ( 7 U.S.C. 2036a activity, (B) in paragraph (3), by inserting registered dietitian nutritionists, licensed mental health professionals, administrators, (2) in subsection (d)— (A) paragraph (1)— (i) by inserting and in coordination with the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, (ii) by inserting school health professionals, school food authorities, (B) in paragraph (2)(C)— (i) by inserting and eating disorders prevention and screening sound nutrition (ii) by inserting and long-term health practices (as such term is defined in subsection (f) of section 28 of the Food and Nutrition Act of 2008 ( 7 U.S.C. 2036a nutrition environments (C) in paragraph (3)— (i) in subparagraph (A), by inserting and the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (ii) in subparagraph (C), by striking 2014 2021 (D) in subparagraph (D), by striking 2011 2020 (b) Applicability The amendments made by subsection (a) shall apply beginning with the first school year that begins at least 90 days after the date of the enactment of this Act.

Summary: Long-term InVestment in Education and Wellness Act or the LIVE Well Act This bill includes eating-disorder prevention and promotion of long-term health practices in the educational component of the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP-Ed) and local school wellness policies created under the National School Lunch Program or other federal child nutrition programs. Under current law, states may elect to implement certain nutrition education and obesity prevention programs as part of SNAP-Ed; this bill requires the Department of Agriculture to specifically implement a nutrition education and obesity prevention program that includes a focus on long-term health practices.