Nutrition and poverty in industrialized countries: Report of roundtable discussion

Nutrition and poverty in industrialized countries: report of roundtable discussion.

The report of the Nutrition Task Force’s Low Income Project Team (LIFT) was published in early 1996. The report, Low Income, Food, Nutrition and Health: Strategies for Improvement (Department of Health, 1996), contains far-ranging recommendations, as discussed by Nelson (1997). The principal recommendations were: to develop a coordinated national approach on food and low income, to establish lo...

Roundtable Discussion

Five experts respected for their work in the development of animal models of alcohol craving offer their perspectives in a roundtable discussion format. The panel members discuss the various definitions and theories of alcohol craving and the benefits and limitations of using animal models to study alcohol craving in humans. Animal models have helped further the understanding of craving by prov...

A Roundtable Discussion 3

Iodine deficiency in industrialized countries.

The recent report of poor iodine status in the UK is a wake-up call to health authorities in industrialized countries who have been slow to grasp that iodine deficiency (ID) is not confined to developing countries. Australia, New Zealand, Belgium, Norway and now the UK are all mildly iodine deficient. In the US, iodine intakes have fallen, and it is uncertain whether status is adequate in pregn...

Productivity Growth in Industrialized Countries

USA. We have benefited from conversations with James F. Burgess, Jr. and David C. Wheelock. We are grateful for financial support from the Belgian Government (" Projet d'Actions de Recherche Concertées, PARC no. 93/98–164), and from the Management Science Group, US Department of Veterans Affairs. We alone, of course, are responsible for any remaining errors in the current text.