1. Nutrition and Food Safety
Chapter 8
Nutrition and Food Safety
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FIGURE 8.1 Reported pellagra deaths, by gender and year, USA, 1920–1960.
Source: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Achievements in Public Health, 1900–1999: safer and healthier foods. MMWR Morb Mortal Wkly Rep 1999;48:905–13. Available at: [Accessed 28 November 2013].
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FIGURE 8.2 Trends in child and adolescent overweight, USA, 1971–2010.
Source: National Center for Health Statistics. Prevalence of overweight and obesity among children and adolescents, United States, 1971–2010. Available at: [Accessed 28 April 2013].
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FIGURE 8.3 The Harvard Healthy Eating Plate.
Source: The Healthy Eating Plate: Copyright © 2011 Harvard University. For more information about The Healthy Eating Plate, please see The Nutrition Source, Department of Nutrition, Harvard School of Public Health. Available at: and Harvard Health Publications, health.harvard.edu [Accessed 21 April 2013]; with permission.
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FIGURE 8.4 Decline in neural tube defects in Canada before and following fortification of flour with folic acid.
Source: De Wals P, Fassiatou-Tairou F, Van Allen MI, Uh SH, Lowry B, Sibbald B, et al. Reduction in neural-tube defects after folic acid fortification in Canada. N Engl J Med 2007;357:135–42; with permission.
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FIGURE 8.5 Growth of genetically engineered crops in the USA, 1996–2010. Note: HT = Herbicide-tolerant, Bt = Bacillus thuringiensis
Source: US Department of Agriculture, Economic Research Service. Recent trends in GE adoption [posted 5 July 2012]. Available at: [Accessed 29 November 2013].
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FIGURE 8.6 Standard growth curve (WHO), boys age 0–24 months, length-for-age and weight-for-age percentiles.
Source: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. 1 November Available at: [Accessed 19 April 2013].
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FIGURE 8.7 Recommended growth curve, body mass index percentiles, girls age 2–19 years.
Source: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Available at: [Accessed 29 November 2013].
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FIGURE 8.8 Factors in the nutritional health of a population. Note: BMI = body mass index; NHANES = National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey.
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