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That the Senate— designates the week of September 19 through September 23, 2022, as Malnutrition Awareness Week ; recognizes registered dietitian nutritionists and other nutrition professionals, health care providers, school foodservice workers, social workers, advocates, caregivers, and other professionals and agencies for their efforts to advance awareness about, treatments for, and the prevention of malnutrition; recognizes the importance of existing Federal nutrition programs, such as the nutrition programs under title III of the Older Americans Act of 1965 ( 42 U.S.C. 3021 et seq. ) and Federal child nutrition programs, for their role in combating malnutrition; supports increased funding for the critical programs described in paragraph (3); recognizes— 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 the need for vulnerable populations to have access to nutrition counseling; recognizes the importance of the innovative research conducted by the National Institutes of Health on— nutrition, dietary patterns, and the human gastrointestinal microbiome; and how those factors influence the prevention or development of chronic disease throughout the lifespan; supports access to malnutrition screening and assessment for all patients; encourages the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services to evaluate the implementation of newly-approved malnutrition electronic clinical quality measures; and acknowledges— the importance of access to healthy food for children, especially in child care settings and schools; and the benefits of evidence-based nutrition standards.
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