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115TH CONGRESS 
2D SESSION 
H. R. 7136 
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. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
NOVEMBER 15, 2018 
Ms. ADAMS (for herself and Mr. FASO) introduced the following bill; which 
was referred to the Committee on Agriculture, and in addition to the 
Committee on Education and the Workforce, for a period to be subse-
quently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such 
provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned 
A BILL 
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. 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Long-Term InVest-
ment in Education for Wellness Act’’ or the ‘‘LIVE Well 
Act’’. 
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SEC. 2. FINDINGS. 
Congress finds the following: 
(1) Eating disorders affect 30 million Ameri-
cans during their lifetime and have the highest mor-
tality 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 spe-
cific disorders of anorexia nervosa, bulimia nervosa, 
binge eating disorder, avoidant-restrictive food in-
take disorder, and other specified feeding or eating 
disorders. 
(4) Eighty percent of people with an eating dis-
order 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 meas-
ures, and 2⁄3 are at risk of an eating disorder. 
(7) Research shows that focusing on weight 
talk, weight stigma, and dieting does not result in 
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long-term reduction in weight; 2⁄3 of dieters will re-
gain more weight than lost from dieting. 
(8) Studies show that shifting prevention fo-
cuses from weight and dieting towards long-term 
health practices, including a focus on body positivity, 
nutrition, decreasing weight-based bullying or har-
assment, and physical activity, without a focus on 
weight, BMI testing, or negative weight talk, re-
duces risk factors for populations affected by eating 
disorders and populations affected by obesity. 
SEC. 3. EATING DISORDERS PREVENTION. 
(a) AMENDMENTS.—Section 28 of the Food and Nu-
trition Act of 2008 (7 U.S.C. 2036a) is amended— 
(1) in the matter preceding paragraph (1) of 
subsection (a), by striking ‘‘and’’ and inserting ‘‘, 
eating disorders prevention, or’’; 
(2) by amending subsection (b) to read as fol-
lows: 
‘‘(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 
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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’’ and 
inserting ‘‘, EATING DISORDERS PREVENTION, 
OR’’; 
(B) in paragraph (1)— 
(i) by inserting ‘‘evidence-based’’ after 
‘‘deliver’’; and 
(ii) by striking ‘‘and’’ and by inserting 
‘‘, eating disorders prevention, or’’; 
(C) in paragraph (2)— 
(i) in subparagraph (A) by striking 
‘‘and’’ and inserting ‘‘, eating disorders 
prevention, or’’; and 
(ii) in subparagraph (B)— 
(I) in clause (ii) by striking 
‘‘and’’ at the end; 
(II) in clause (iii) by striking the 
period at the end and inserting ‘‘; 
and’’; and 
(III) by adding at the end the 
following: 
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‘‘(iv) ensure that interventions encour-
age assessment for eating disorders and in-
clude long-term health practices.’’; 
(D) in paragraph (3)— 
(i) in subparagraph (A)— 
(I) in clause (i) by inserting ‘‘eat-
ing disorders prevention and assess-
ment,’’ after ‘‘education,’’; and 
(II) in clause (iii) by inserting 
‘‘and long-term health practices’’ after 
‘‘nutrition’’; and 
(ii) in subparagraph (B)— 
(I) in the matter preceding clause 
(i)— 
(aa) by inserting ‘‘and eat-
ing disorders prevention,’’ after 
‘‘education’’; and 
(bb) by inserting ‘‘, Assist-
ant Secretary of the Substance 
Abuse and Mental Health Serv-
ices Administration,’’ after ‘‘Cen-
ters for Disease Control and Pre-
vention’’; and 
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(II) in clause (ii) by inserting 
‘‘and eating disorders’’ after ‘‘edu-
cation’’; and 
(E) in paragraph (4)— 
(i) by striking ‘‘and’’ after ‘‘edu-
cation’’; and 
(ii) by inserting ‘‘, eating disorders 
prevention, or’’ after ‘‘nutrition edu-
cation’’; 
(4) in subsection (d)— 
(A) in paragraph (1) by striking ‘‘and’’ the 
first place it appears and inserting ‘‘, eating 
disorders prevention, or’’; 
(B) in paragraph (3)— 
(i) in subparagraph (A) by striking 
‘‘and’’ and inserting ‘‘, eating disorders 
prevention, or’’ after; and 
(ii) in subparagraph (B) by striking 
‘‘and’’ by inserting ‘‘, eating disorders pre-
vention, or’’ after ‘‘nutrition education’’; 
and 
(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 
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(5) by adding at the end the following: 
‘‘(f) DEFINITION.—In this section the term ‘long- 
term health practices’ means long-lasting changes within 
an individual focused on nutrition, body positivity, and 
physical activity, focusing on overall health outcomes such 
as changes in behavior and metabolic health instead of 
weight.’’. 
SEC. 4. LOCAL WELLNESS GRANTS. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—Section 9A of the Richard B. 
Russell National School Lunch Act (42 U.S.C. 1758b) is 
amended— 
(1) in subsection (b)— 
(A) in paragraph (2)(B)— 
(i) by inserting ‘‘, through 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)),’’ after ‘‘promote’’; and 
(ii) by inserting ‘‘disordered eating 
within children or’’ after ‘‘reduce’’; and 
(B) in paragraph (3), by inserting ‘‘li-
censed mental health professionals,’’ after ‘‘ad-
ministrators,’’; and 
(2) in subsection (d)— 
(A) paragraph (1)— 
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(i) by inserting ‘‘and in coordination 
with the Substance Abuse and Mental 
Health Services Administration,’’ after 
‘‘Centers for Disease Control and Preven-
tion’’; and 
(ii) by inserting ‘‘school health profes-
sionals,’’ after ‘‘school food authorities,’’; 
(B) in paragraph (2)(C)— 
(i) by inserting ‘‘and eating disorders 
prevention and assessment’’ after ‘‘sound 
nutrition’’; and 
(ii) by inserting ‘‘and long-term health 
practices (as such term is defined in sub-
section (f) of section 28 of the Food and 
Nutrition Act of 2008 (7 U.S.C. 2036a))’’ 
after ‘‘nutrition environments’’; 
(C) in paragraph (3)— 
(i) in subparagraph (A), by inserting 
‘‘and the Substance Abuse and Mental 
Health 
Services 
Administration’’ 
after 
‘‘Centers for Disease Control and Preven-
tion’’; and 
(ii) in subparagraph (C), by striking 
‘‘2014’’ and inserting ‘‘2021’’; and 
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(D) in subparagraph (D), by striking 
‘‘2011’’, and inserting ‘‘2020’’. 
(b) APPLICABILITY.—The amendments made by sub-
section (a) shall apply beginning with the first school year 
that begins at least 90 days after the date of the enact-
ment of this Act. 
Æ 
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