Committee on Food Consumption Patterns, "Assessing Changing Food Consumption Patterns" 
Publisher: National Academies Press | ISBN: 0309031354 | edition 1981 | PDF | 285 pages | 12,1 mb
The Food and Nutrition Board of the National Academy of Sciences under contract from the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) was charged to study the sources of data on food consumption and to suggest a system for integrating these data with data on nutrition and health status. The purposes of the study were to evaluate current means of determining food consumption patterns and nutritional status and to devise alternative methods for obtaining information on food consumption, food consumption patterns, and nutritional status.