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These papers are part of a series of nutrition policy profiles prepared by Prevention Institute for the Center for Health Improvement.
In this Public Library of Science blog post, PI's Jessica Berthold and Sarah Mittermaier point to the wide-ranging nature of public health in creating and maintaining safe, healthy communities in which every person's well-being is valued equally.
Published by the Institute of Medicine’s Roundtable on Population Health Improvement, Closing the Loop outlines some of the essential elements of sustainable funding mechanisms and argues that we need to “close the loop” by ensuring that when prevention efforts DO save money, substantial portions of that money get plowed back into prevention.
Prevention Institute collected data for this report prepared by the National Alliance for Nutrition and Activity. The report finds that upgrading to larger serving sizes often increases price only modestly, but substantially increases calorie and fat content.
This letter to the editor appeared in the October 2004 issue of The American Journal of Public Health.
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