Böcker av Food and Nutrition Board

Dietary Reference Intakes Research Synthesis: Workshop Summary

Explores decision-making process for selecting seafood by assessing evidence on availability of specific nutrients (compared to other food sources) to obtain nutritional benefits. This book develops a decision path for US consumers to weigh their seafood choices to obtain nutritional benefits balanced against exposure risks.

Mineral Requirements for Military Personnel

Based on a committee report which concluded that the food packages provided by the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children should be changed. This book provides details on the proposed food packages, summarizes how these packages differ from existing packages, and discusses the rationale for the proposed packages.

Recognizing the importance of good nutrition for physical and mental status, the Department of Defense asked the Institute of Medicine to guide the design of the nutritional composition of a ration for soldiers on short-term, high-stress missions. This book considers military performance, health concerns, food intake, and food technology issues.

The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) workforce is highly skilled and employees frequently work under pressure to ensure mission success. The Office of the Chief Health and Medical Officer at NASA requested that the Institute of Medicine review its occupational health programs. This work presents the committee's findings.

Assists policymakers in evaluating the scientific methods for detecting unintended changes in food and assessing the potential for adverse health effects from genetically modified products. This work feels that scrutiny should be given to foods containing new compounds or unusual amounts of substances and of the method used to create them.

Given the trajectory toward a healthier childhood, we begin the 21st-century with a shocking development - an epidemic of obesity in children and youth. This book explores the causes of this health problem and the actions needed to initiate, support, and sustain the societal and lifestyle changes that can reverse the trend among our children.

Focusing its analysis on Dietary Reference Intakes (DRIs), this book examines the purpose of nutrition labelling, various labelling practices in the US and Canada, and food fortification practices and policies. It also offers recommendations as a series of guiding principles to assist the regulatory agencies that oversee food labelling.

The primary purpose of fitness and body composition standards in the US Armed Forces has always been to select individuals best suited to the physical demands of military service, based on the assumption that proper body weight and composition supports good health, physical fitness, and appropriate military appearance.

Aims to help in creating regulations that are consistent, reliable, and ensure the best protection for the health of American consumers. This book addresses the concerns in food safety, such as microbial disease surveillance plans, tools for establishing food safety criteria, and issues specific to meat, dairy, poultry, seafood, and produce.

Explaining dietary habits, this volume examines the impact of fast-food proliferation and the changing role of women as it affects dietary behavior, and analyzes the nutritional consequences of national dietary trends. It focuses on the factors that shape eating patterns, eating trends such as snacking and food variety, nutrition policy, and more.

Obesity poses one of the greatest public health challenges of the 21st century, creating serious health, economic, and social consequences for individuals and society. This book offers a framework that can provide guidance for systematic and routine planning, implementation, and evaluation of the advancement of obesity prevention efforts.

"Appendixes B through K are not printed in this book, but can be found on the CD at the back of the book or online at http://www.nap.edu."--p. [537

"Many people naturally assume that the claims made for foods and nutritional supplements have the same degree of scientific grounding as those for medication, but that is not always the case. The IOM recommends that the FDA adopt a consistent scientific framework for biomarker evaluation in order to achieve a rigorous and transparent process."--Publisher's description.