Nutrition in Public Health

Nutrition in Public Health, Third Edition defines the state of public health nutrition and the services offered in the United States today. It provides readers with a description of public health in the U.S. through data and expertise from relevant contributing authors, and discusses the active services and service agencies that are available to manage today s health issues. New to the Third Edition: Addition of a nutritional epidemiology chapter; Environmental and economic concerns of today. Updated material in these areas: Dietary Guidelines 2010; Food Stamp Program is now the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program; WIC (Women, Infants and Children Program) is now the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program; Food security in global terms (due to the new concept of terrorism); World hunger and the implications to public health nutrition (as the US is called upon for more assistance to other nations); Public health nutrition and fitness in America; programs and services (due to the recognized obesity epidemic).