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A1 PHIPARD EF, STIEBELING HK
T1 ADequacy of american diets
JF Journal of the American Medical Association
JO Journal of the American Medical Association
YR 1949
FD February 26
VO 139
IS 9
SP 579
OP 585
DO 10.1001/jama.1949.72900260001007
UL http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/jama.1949.72900260001007
AB For a long time food has been front page news. In many countries of the world the chief concern has been enough food. Calories have assumed new importance in scientific, economic and political fields. It is only in countries like the United States with abundant food supplies that chief attention can be focused not on "how much food" but on "how good" are the diets of the people.An ideal report on the adequacy of American diets would be based on periodic and detailed studies of food consumption in a cross section of the various population groups and on parallel investigations of the nutritional status of the people consuming this food. Such data are not available at present; hence information of many kinds must be put together to give an indication of the situation. This chapter deals chiefly with food supplies and the factors affecting their distribution among various groups