Nutrition in public health -- Preventing disease or promoting health? -- The U.S. population -- looking forward from the past -- Nutritional epidemiology -- Food and nutrition surveys for monitoring the public's health -- Prevalence of diet-related chronic diseases: disparities and programs to reduce them -- Weight control: challenges and solutions -- Special populations -- Cultural competence -- Food and nutrition politics, policy, and legislation -- Food and nutrition guidance -- Food and nutrition assessment of the community -- Promoting food security -- Social marketing and other mass communication techniques -- Food safety and defense -- Grants to support initiatives in public health nutrition.
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"Nutrition plays a key role in many areas of public health such as pre-term delivery, cancer, obesity, diabetes, and cardiovascular and renal diseases. Government nutrition policy, therefore, bears a huge influence on the nation's biggest health concerns. Nutrition in Public Health: Principles, Policies, and Practice integrates discussions of nutrition policy and health issues, an approach that could hold the key to the primary and secondary prevention of some of the major causes of premature death in the United States."--Jacket.