The serious nature of these findings is evident by virtually any indicator of current population health in America, which point to a dramatic worsening over the last two decades with increasing rates of obesity and type 2 diabetes among adults and children, greater numbers of people with uncontrolled hypertension, increasing hospitalization rate of for heart failure, and ever decreasing birthweight. Recent studies predict further increases in these chronic disease rates based on current indicators. Such disease rates will make health care financially unsustainable. Worsening diets of mothers in recent decades has most certainly contributed to the deteriorating health status of Oregonians, mandating that novel innovations in dietary interventions are needed to bring wholesome nutrition to large segments of the population.