title: Prevention--today's dietary challenges.
abstract: The Surgeon General of the U.S. reports that the health of the American people has never been better. Nevertheless, challenges remain--namely, the conquest of the chronic diseases which now are the dominant killers in this country--and stronger preventive measures are needed. Nutrition is one of fifteen key activities identified as components of a national prevention strategy. Dietary problems today are largely those of excess--not deficiency--and a consensus is growing as to dietary practices which will help in the prevention approach. This is evidenced in statements from the American Society for Clinical Nutrition, DHEW, and USDA. We can and must provide more nutritional and dietary information to the American people, and dietitians can and will be in the vanguard of such action.
mesh_terms: D004032:Diet; D006077:Government Agencies; D006801:Humans; D052756:Nutritional Sciences / Q000193:education; D011315:Preventive Medicine; D014481:United States