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National Nutrition Issues. CED-78-7; B-164031(3). December 8,
1977. 59 pp. '. 2 appendices (22 pp.).
Staff study by Henry Eschwege, Director, Community and Economic
Development Div.
Issue Area: Food (1700).
Contact: Community and Economic Development Div.
Budget Function: Agriculture: Agricultural Research and Services
(352).
Organization Concerned: Department of Agriculture.
Congressional Relevance: House Committee on Agriculture; Senate
Committee on Agriculture and Fcrestry.
Authority: National Consumer Health Information and Health
Promotion Act (P.L. 94-317). Food and Agriculture Act of
1977 (P.L. 95-113) Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act, as
amended. National School Lunch Act.
The United States is fortunate in that most citizens
have access to nutritious, safe food. Its citizens are among the
best fed in the world, and it has zany Government agencies and
programs designed to assure food supply, to make food available
to those in need, and to ensure food safety. Over the past 10
years the Nation's concern abcut food has increasingly turned
from basic supply to adequate nutrition. Inadequite nutrition
has become more and more linked with this country's leading
causes of death. As these links have baen better defined, it is
apparent that adequate nutrition is an integral part of
preventive disease protection. The United States has no formal,
written nutrition policy. Rather, it has a de facto policy which
is, in effect, a piecemeal series cf programs instituted over
the years, often because of a sense of emergency and with little
thought given to its interaction or relationship with existing
programs. The existing programs clearly -iould be part of any
structured nutrition policy, albeit in different forms. Issues
that should be considered include: the extent oZ the role
nutrition considerations 3hould play in food and health policy
decisions; whether a more formal nutrition policy should be
adopted with explicitly stated goals and objectives; whether a
central authority or a formal coordinating group for nutrition
matters should be established; and how far the Government should
intcrcede in promoting dietary practices. (Author/SC)](ViewImageLocal?handle=hein.gao/gaobacjfx0001&div=1&collection=&method=preview&ext=.png&size=3)