Improving Data to Analyze Food and Nutrition Policies

by National Research Council, National Academies Press, National Academies

Several changes in the United States over the past two decades have implications for diet, nutrition, and food safety, including patterns of food consumption that have produced an increase in overweight and obese Americans and threats to food safety from pathogens and bioterrorism. The changes raise a number of critical policy and research questions: How do differences in food prices and availability or in households' time resources for shopping...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0309100054
• ISBN13: 9780309100052
• Release Date: November 2005
• Publisher: National Academies Press
• Length: 146 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 5.9" x 8.9"