Research environment for nutrition in the 1980's
1981
Davis, George K.
The research environment for the biological fields, including nutrition, has been singled out as especially vulnerable to attack, often irrational and disquieting, from different quarters. The result of these attacks is often precarious funding of those investigators seeking basic answers to perplexing nutrition problems. Fortunately, nutrition research achievements continue to add to nutrition and metabolism understanding as it relates to health and disease encouraging support of research on recognized nutrition problems. The control of plant diseases and animal pests that affect crop and animal food production will have high priority for research in the 1980's. Emphasis for research also will be placed on: the development of more efficient crop varieties and animal strains through genetic engineering; assessment of minimum, optimum, and safe maximum intakes of nutrients; nutrient-nutrient interactions; the metabolism and function of nutrients as they relate to health and human development; nutritional surveillance and monitoring; and nutrition and aging. The importance of these and other research areas are discussed in the context of nutrition research priorities and their funding. (wz)
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