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Assessment of Diet Quality and the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Nutrition Policy and Research
Pages 158-161

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... the information needed to make informed food choices (Block, 1983; USDA, 19841. The department carries out its nutrition mission through research, information, education, regulations, and food assistance programs.
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... The success of the USDA food and nutrition mission depends on researchers' ability to define diets Hat promote optimum health and prevent disease. The definition of such diets is complicated by researchers' uncertainties about human nutritional requirements, about availability and interaction of nutrients in the body, and about the relationship of diets to He prevention of disease.
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... Thus, even without considering the other five guidelines relating to fat, cholesterol, sugar, sodium, alcohol, carbohydrate, and fiber, there is a major nutrition program dilemma. Should USDA's nutrition education and food assistance program objectives call for the major disruption of food consumption patterns necessary to achieve RDAs for nutrients especially nutrients for which no apparent public health problem exists?
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... 1980. Food and Nutrient Intakes of Individuals in 1 Day in the United States, Spring 1977.
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