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Background and Introduction
Pages 3-8

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... Department of Defense on the need for and conduct of nutrition research and related issues. Specifically it is charged with identifying nutritional factors that could critically influence the physical and mental performance of military personnel under environmental extremes, with identifying deficiencies in the existing relevant data base, with recommending approaches for studying the relationship of diet to physical and mental performance, and with reviewing and advising on nutritional standards for military feeding systems.
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... Full Committee meetings are scheduled at the request of the Army to review nutrition programs, food products, and specific research projects in various stages of development. At these meetings oral presentations by Army personnel are augmented by written background material on one or more specific items for the Committee on Military Nutrition Research to review.
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... This document format is typically used in response to a request for review of a food product, packaging process, completed research project, or planned educational program. The Army provides an oral presentation as well as extensive documentation or product specifications.
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... This report is an example of the periodic activity report of the CMNR. Document Review Subsequent to approval of the final draft of a report by the Committee, and the Food and Nutrition Board, in accordance with National Research Council guidelines, each report, with the exception of the activity reports, is reviewed in confidence by a separate, anonymous scientific review group.
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... Staff then write a response to the reviewers with the final report draft and obtain final approval of the report from the review panel. Each Committee on Military Nutrition Research report is thus a thoughtfully developed presentation that incorporates the scientific opinion of the CMNR and the comments of anonymous National Research Council reviewers.
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