Mineral Requirements for Military Personnel: Levels Needed for Cognitive and Physical Performance During Garrison Training

by Institute of Medicine, Food and Nutrition Board, Committee on Military Nutrition Research

The U.S. Army Health Risk Appraisal group surveyed 400,000 active duty U.S. Army personnel in the late 1990s to determine whether or not those personnel met the dietary objectives of Healthy People 2000 (HP2000), a national agenda for health promotion and disease prevention. As reported by Yore et al. (2000), Army personnel generally did not meet the HP2000 goals for nutrition even though significant progress had been made during 1991-1998. Although...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0309101263
• ISBN13: 9780309101264
• Release Date: August 2006
• Publisher: National Academies Press
• Length: 512 Pages