IV 
119TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION 
H. RES. 683 
Supporting the designation of the week of September 8 through September 
12, 2025, as ‘‘Malnutrition Awareness Week’’. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
SEPTEMBER 9, 2025 
Ms. BONAMICI (for herself, Mr. BACON, Mr. MCGOVERN, Mr. LAWLER, Mr. 
FITZPATRICK, Mrs. WATSON
COLEMAN, Ms. TOKUDA, and Mr. 
CARBAJAL) submitted the following resolution; which was referred to the 
Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committees 
on Agriculture, Ways and Means, and Education and Workforce, for a 
period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for 
consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the com-
mittee concerned 
RESOLUTION 
Supporting the designation of the week of September 8 
through September 12, 2025, as ‘‘Malnutrition Aware-
ness Week’’. 
Whereas malnutrition is the condition that occurs when a 
person does not get enough protein, calories, or nutrients; 
Whereas malnutrition is a significant problem in the United 
States and around the world, crossing all age, racial, 
class, gender, and geographic lines; 
Whereas malnutrition can be determined by social drivers of 
health, including poverty or economic instability, access 
to affordable health care, and low health literacy; 
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Whereas there are inextricable and cyclical links between pov-
erty and malnutrition; 
Whereas the Department of Agriculture defines food insecu-
rity as when a person or household does not have regular, 
reliable access to the foods needed for good health; 
Whereas communities of color, across all age groups, are dis-
proportionately likely to experience both food insecurity 
and malnutrition; 
Whereas American Indian and Alaska Native households are 
at significantly greater risk for food insecurity than all 
households in the United States; 
Whereas 1 in 18 Asian Americans and 1 in 5 Pacific Island-
ers experience food insecurity; 
Whereas Black children are almost 3 times more likely to live 
in a food-insecure household than White children; 
Whereas infants, older adults, people with chronic diseases, 
and other vulnerable populations are particularly at risk 
for malnutrition; 
Whereas the American Academy of Pediatrics has found that 
failure to provide key nutrients during early childhood 
may result in lifelong deficits in brain function; 
Whereas disease-associated malnutrition affects between 30 
and 50 percent of patients admitted to hospitals, and the 
medical costs of hospitalized patients with malnutrition 
can be 300 percent more than the medical costs of prop-
erly nourished patients; 
Whereas deaths from malnutrition have increased among 
adults 85 and older since 2013; 
Whereas, according to the ‘‘National Blueprint: Achieving 
Quality Malnutrition Care for Older Adults, 2020 Up-
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date’’, as many as half of older adults living in the 
United States are malnourished or at risk for malnutri-
tion; 
Whereas, according to recent Aging Network surveys, 76 per-
cent of older adults receiving meals at senior centers and 
other congregate facilities report improved health out-
comes, and 84 percent of older adults receiving home-de-
livered meals indicate the same; 
Whereas older adults receiving home-delivered meals for 2 to 
5 years were 72 percent less likely to be at malnutrition 
risk compared with those receiving meals for less than 6 
months; 
Whereas disease-associated malnutrition in older adults alone 
costs the United States more than $51,300,000,000 each 
year; and 
Whereas the American Society for Parenteral and Enteral 
Nutrition established ‘‘Malnutrition Awareness Week’’ to 
raise awareness and promote prevention of malnutrition 
across the lifespan: Now, therefore, be it 
Resolved, That the House of Representatives— 
(1) supports the designation of ‘‘Malnutrition 
Awareness Week’’; 
(2) recognizes registered dietitian nutritionists 
and other nutrition professionals, health care pro-
viders, school food service workers, those who pro-
vide home-delivered meals, social workers, advocates, 
caregivers, and other professionals and agencies for 
their efforts to advance awareness, treatment, and 
prevention of malnutrition; 
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(3) recognizes the importance of existing Fed-
eral nutrition programs, like the Older Americans 
Act of 1965 (42 U.S.C. 3001 et seq.) nutrition pro-
grams and Federal child nutrition programs, for 
their role in combating malnutrition, and supports 
increased funding for these critical programs; 
(4) recognizes the role of community-based or-
ganizations, food banks, faith-based organizations, 
and local agencies and the need for partnerships 
among them and with healthcare providers in pre-
venting and addressing malnutrition in underserved 
areas; 
(5) recognizes— 
(A) the importance of medical nutrition 
therapy under the Medicare Program under 
title XVIII of the Social Security Act (42 
U.S.C. 1395 et seq.); and 
(B) the need for vulnerable populations to 
have adequate access to nutrition counseling; 
(6) recognizes the importance of the innovative 
research conducted by the National Institutes of 
Health on— 
(A) nutrition, dietary patterns, and the 
human gastrointestinal microbiome; and 
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(B) how those factors influence the preven-
tion or development of chronic disease through-
out the lifespan; 
(7) recognizes that malnutrition affects people 
of all ages and backgrounds, and that early identi-
fication and intervention can reduce health care 
costs, hospital re-admissions, and long-term com-
plications; 
(8) encourages the Centers for Medicare and 
Medicaid Services to facilitate the implementation of 
the new Malnutrition Care Score, an electronic clin-
ical quality measure for adults aged 18 and older; 
(9) acknowledges the importance of healthy 
food access for children, especially in childcare set-
tings and schools, and the benefits of evidence-based 
nutrition standards; and 
(10) acknowledges that addressing malnutrition 
is critical to achieving national goals related to 
chronic disease prevention, healthy aging, and access 
to good health for all. 
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