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...Laura Lovett The cartoon character Popeye the Sailor was capable of superhuman feats of strength after eating a can of spinach. Popeye ate spinach because the association of spinach with strength was a product of the first national nutrition crisis in the United States: the 1920s fight against...

...Jerry L. Weaver There is a considerable body of literature that documents the higher infant mortality among American Blacks. This disparity has been attributed to many socioeconomic factors such as poor pre-and postnatal maternal health care, poor nutrition, inadequate housing, and so forth. Yet...

... nutritional targets are missed. Various iterations of school-based nutrition programs have proven to be ineffective and wasteful, yet policy leaders continue to consume tax dollars with their implementation. Although strict guidelines for evaluating scientific evidence were historically used to ensure...

... concerns, new electoral contexts, epidemiological information, and normative beliefs. In Mexico, the infiltration of nutrition researchers within government facilitated this process. By contrast, Brazil's government was divided about pursuing regulatory policies, with presidents favoring partnerships...

... to question whether anything works to prevent or reduce obesity. In this essay I review the evidence on the effectiveness of antiobesity programs. Although some programs have had negligible effects, others have had small beneficial effects on diet, physical activity, and weight. Nutrition labels on packaged...

... and risk assessment by portraying infant nutrition as a matter of safety versus danger and then creating spurious analogies. It also exploited deep-seated normative assumptions about the responsibility that mothers have to protect babies and children from harm and was insufficiently attentive...

... and Policy Priorities. Center on Social Welfare Policy and Law. 1989 . Welfare Law i. 1988. Clearinghouse Review 9 ( January ). Citizens' Board of Inquiry into Hunger and Malnutrition in the United States. 1968 . Hunger USA. Boston: Beacon Press. CNI Reporter. 1989a . Nutrition Waits 50...

..., China, and South Africa (also known as the BRICS). But what are the motivating factors driving these nations to respond to obesity through the implementation of policies emphasizing obesity prevention, such as better nutrition and exercise? Do all nations respond the same way, for the same reasons...

..., the Netherlands, Luxembourg, Germany, Spain, Switzerland, and Portugal. Its aim is to enable consumers to compare the nutritional value of prepackaged foods per 100 grams or 100 milliliters quickly and easily in terms of consumption, use, or purchasing conditions; hence, it contributes to the prevention...

... : University of Illinois Press . Food and Nutrition Service (FNS) . n.d. Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) . Washington, DC : U.S. Department of Agriculture . www.fns.usda.gov/snap/applicant_recipients/eligibility.htm (accessed August 15, 2011) . ———. n.d. WIC's Mission...

..., Medicine, and Food Messages in Television Commercials during 1992 and 1998. Journal of School Health 70 : 61 –65. Center for Science in the Public Interest. 2009. We Name Names! Nutrition Action Health Letter. www.cspinet.org/nah/10foods_bad.html (accessed December 3, 2009). Chan, J. M., E. B...

... their credentials as experts well before the publication of these books. The author of Bad Foods, on the other hand, has conducted studies exploring the reputation of specifi c foods that contrast with their nutritional profi les. Perhaps Oakes is simply out of his league. But in defense of the selections...

... their credentials as experts well before the publication of these books. The author of Bad Foods, on the other hand, has conducted studies exploring the reputation of specifi c foods that contrast with their nutritional profi les. Perhaps Oakes is simply out of his league. But in defense of the selections...

... Foods, on the other hand, has conducted studies exploring the reputation of specifi c foods that contrast with their nutritional profi les. Perhaps Oakes is simply out of his league. But in defense of the selections for this review, the literature is thin for the argument that there really...

..., and Joseph S. Nye, Jr., eds. 1985 . Hawks, Doves, and Owls: An Agenda for Avoiding Nuclear War . New York: W. W. Norton. Alvarez-Leite, Jacqueline I. 2004 . Nutrient Deficiencies Secondary to Bariatric Surgery. Current Opinion in Clinical Nutrition and Metabolic Care 7 : 569 -575. American...

....R40E, and USABC.053004.R41. Although 54 percent of respondents felt that fast-food companies misled their customers about the nutritional content of their food, only 12 percent endorsed the notion of holding these companies legally liable (USABC.053002.R38B...

... Chen Chunming (1925–2018) to cooperate in health work. 3 With a degree in nutritional science and 35 years of experience doing research at the Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences (variously named), Chen was one of the nation's leading nutritional scientists (Editors, BES n.d. ). In 1982 she became...

..., and Rowland and Barrel1 on gastroenteritis. Three articles are disappointing: despite world- wide concern and active research on the links between nutrition and disease, and between emotional stress and disease, the chapters by Morley (on nutrition) and Hamson (on stress) are cursory at best...

... by a parallel increase in the support for government action on obesity. In the absence of this linkage to elite opinion cues, we expect that whether respondents read nutrition labels or books on healthy eating and whether they perceive obesity to be a serious national or per- sonal problem...

... been organized. Educational programs have been launched in nutrition, sanita- tion, environmental health, mother-child care, and disease prevention. Also, paramedical personnel, or Agentes Polivantes , who are similar in some respects to the Chinese “barefoot doctors,” have been recruited...