Effect of Food, Diet and Nutrition on Military Readiness and Preparedness of Army Personnel and Dependents in a Peacetime Environment
Abstract
The scientific design of five projects has been approved and three of these are underway. The Fort Polk Heart Smart Project is in the start-up phase with an assessment of nutritional and exercise habits of military wives as well as a screening assessment for a cardiovascular disease in military dependents. A Diet, Neurotransmitters, and Behavior project cyclo (His-Pro) neurochemistry and tryptophane metabolite neurochemistry. The Stable Isotope Laboratory Project will begin in January, 1990. The research objectives were: to Establish a Nutritional Health Promotion Research Development Test and Evaluation (RDT&E) center for military personnel and dependents in a peacetime environment to accomplish the following: Assess the nutritional adequacy of the diet of military personnel to promote health and military readiness; evaluate and develop military; monitor the nutritional status of military personnel and their family members; and develop and evaluate military nutrition, education, and health promotion programs. Provide nutrition laboratory research support to the army's military nutrition research program at USARIEM to accomplish the following: provide biochemical assessment of nutrition status; perform food biochemistry analysis; and establish and perform stable isotope methodologies for nutritional assessment. (kt)
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Aug 15, 1989
- Accession Number
- ADA214814
Entities
People
- Donna H. Ryan
Organizations
- Pennington Biomedical Research Center