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CHICAGO - Andrew Prentice, professor and head of the international nutrition group at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, and Ann Prentice, director of the Medical Research Council Resource Centre for Human Nutrition Research, Elsie Widdowson Laboratory, Cambridge, U.K., have been named recipients of the American Dietetic Association Foundation’s prestigious Edna and Robert Langholz International Nutrition Award.

The Prentices will receive the award on Saturday, October 2, during the Opening Session of the American Dietetic Association’s 2004 Food & Nutrition Conference & Expo, being held October 2-5 at the Anaheim, Calif., Convention Center.

This is only the fourth time the Langholz award has been presented since its creation in 1992 by the late Edna Page Langholz, a registered dietitian who served as 1981-82 president of the American Dietetic Association, and her husband. Robert Langholz Jr. and Larry Langholz will present the award to Andrew and Ann Prentice.

The Langholz Award is represented by a bronze sculpture of a young child holding a basket of fresh produce in front of a world diorama.

“The first husband and wife team to receive the Langholz Award, the Prentices each have long and distinguished records of research achievements,” said registered dietitian and ADA Foundation Chair Margaret Bogle.

Andrew Prentice’s research focuses on pregnancy and lactation, energy requirements and adaptations and malnutrition. His important recent findings that birth in the “hungry season” predicts a 10-fold increase in risk of premature adult death from infectious disease has led to several new initiatives to investigate the early programming of human immunity. “Dr. Prentice excels at making the linkages between the underlying basic biology of nutritional science and the application of these findings to public health,” Bogle said.

Ann Prentice specializes in researching nutrient requirements for bone health in both affluent and developing societies. She is involved in projects studying pregnant and lactating women, children, adolescents and the elderly in the United Kingdom, West Africa and China. Prentice is a member of the U.K. Scientific Advisory Committee on Nutrition, sits on advisory committees for the Royal College of Pediatrics and Child Health and the National Osteoporosis Society and has been a member of several World Health Organization Committees.

“ADA and its Foundation are honored to be able to celebrate the many contributions of these two outstanding individuals to the science of nutrition,” Bogle said. “Their commitment to a global approach to nutrition research is to be commended.”

The ADA Foundation is the philanthropic arm of the American Dietetic Association, the nation’s largest organization of food and nutrition professionals. The Chicago-based ADA serves the public by promoting optimal food, nutrition and health. Visit ADA at http://www.eatright.org/.