PREPARED BY THE STAFF OF THE SELECT COMMITTEE ON NUTRITION AND HUMAN NEEDS UNITED STATES SENATE (75/P7) Printed for the use of the Select Committee on Nutrition For sale by the Superintendent of Documents, U.S. Government Printing Office SELECT COMMITTEE ON NUTRITION AND HUMAN NEEDS GEORGE McGOVERN, South Dakota, Chairman HERMAN E. TALMADGE, Georgia CHARLES H. PERCY, Illinois Kenneth Schlossberg, Staff Director Gerald S. J. Cassidy, General Counsel Nelson S. Hallmark, Consultant NATIONAL NUTRITION POLICY STUDY HEARINGS: (H) CONTENTS Page B. The National Nutrition Policy Study 13 C. Focus of the Panel on Nutrition and Government 13 D. Profile of the Panelists 14 Chapter I—National Nutritional Planning: B. A National Nutrition Plan 20 Chapter II—Organizing the Federal Effort: A. Need for Institutionalization 27 B. Organizational Recommendations of 1969 White House D. The Case for a Federal Nutrition Office 32 E. A National Nutrition Center 35 F. A Presidential Assistant for Nutrition 37 G. Food and Nutrition Policy Board 38 H. Other Organizational Proposals 39 Chapter III—Improving Programs and Activities: A. Nutritional Surveillance 43 National Nutrition Consortium, Inc.: I. Need for a stated National Nutrition Policy 62 II. Goals of a National Nutrition Policy 62 III. Measures to attain goals 63 IV. Programs needed to meet objectives 63 V. Requirements to establish and effectively implement 66 (m) |