We take great pleasure in inviting you to attend the 7th International Conference on Diet and Activity Methods -- ICDAM7 -- (previously known as the International Conference on Dietary Assessment Methods) on June 5-7, 2009, in Washington, DC, at the Hyatt Regency Washington on Capitol Hill. The conference reception will be on Friday night, June 5, and the optional conference dinner will be on Saturday night, June 6, in historic Union Station.

Diet and physical activity are lifestyle and behavioral factors that play an important role in health and the etiology, prevention, and treatment of many chronic diseases. Accurate data on diet and physical activity are critical in understanding how these factors may impact health and functional status over the human lifespan.

The measurement of usual dietary intake or physical activity is challenging. Improved methods in the areas of diet and physical activity are critical to monitoring changing food consumption and physical activity patterns, enhancing our understanding of relationships to health, monitoring health objectives, assessing household food insecurity and hunger, and measuring energy balance. It is at this conference that the most prominent in the field gather to present, learn, improve, and germinate new research to improve the measurement of these two critical dimensions of health and the environment.

After introducing physical activity as a theme at the last meeting held in Denmark in 2006, this is the first time that diet and physical activity methods will be equally represented in all aspects of the program, hence, the change of the name, but not the acronym, of the meeting from the International Conference on Dietary Assessment Methods to International Conference on Diet and Activity Methods.

Chair:
Amy F. Subar, PhD, MPH, RD
National Cancer Institute
Division of Cancer Control and Population Sciences
Applied Research Program
Risk Factor Monitoring and Methods Branch
6130 Executive Boulevard
EPN 4005
Bethesda, MD 20892-7344

Phone: 301-594-0831
Fax: 301-435-3710

National Cancer Institute, Applied Research Program
Active Living Research
Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
National Institutes of Health, Office of Dietary Supplements