Individual chapters in this book provide different perspectives on the nutrition problems in the United States: what … intake; how much do people know about nutrition and how does nutrition knowledge and attitudes affect intake of fats and … cholesterol; how do different government programs and regulations influence food expenditures and consumption; what are some …

continues to transform the food assistance landscape in the United States. The Act cut more funds from the Food Stamp Program … these cuts, food stamps now have a more prominent role in the post-welfare reform social safety net because the largest cash … (TANF) program, a nonentitlement program. This leaves the Food Stamp Program as one of the only remaining entitlement …

fast-food restaurant fare. The share of daily caloric intake from food purchased and/or eaten away from home increased from … about half of total food expenditures in 2004, up from 34 percent in 1974. Analysis of a survey of U.S. consumers indicates …

Consumer demand for food is an important component of the structure within which various agricultural policies have … been formulated. To provide a model for food consumption forecasts and analyses of food program effects, a complete set of … food demand relationships consisting of direct-and cross-price elasticities, and expenditure (income) a1asticities was …

Recent studies show that average diets differ considerably from Food Guide Pyramid recommendations. The gap between … vegetables, notably dark-green leafy and deep-yellow vegetables, and dry beans, peas, and lentils. The change in food consumption … needed to meet Food Guide Pyramid serving recommendations will result in adjustments in U.S. agricultural production, trade …

This report examines major trends in the amount of food available for consumption in the United States between 1970 and … 2005 using data from the ERS Food Availability (Per Capita) Data System. The report also estimates whether Americans are … meeting Federal dietary recommendations for each of the major food groups by comparing the data with dietary recommendations …

Most American diets do not meet Federal Food Guide Pyramid dietary recommendations. On average, people consume too many … whole grains compared with a reference set of Food Guide Pyramid serving recommendations appropriate to the age and gender … caloric sweeteners also reached a 27-year high. This report is the first dietary assessment to use ERSís time-series food …

Household access to food over time in Tanzania is measured by comparing the cost of representative food baskets to … starch such as cassava and banana. The food baskets include 15 food groups that make up approximately 67 to 88 percent of … average calorie intake. From 2008/09 to 2010/11, food basket costs rose rapidly in nominal terms but were stable in real terms …

policy issues: from biofuels to food consumption to land conservation to patterns of trade for agricultural products. What …