Nutrition in Public Health, Third Edition defines the state of public health nutrition and the services offered in the United States today. It provides readers with a description of public health in the U.S. through data and expertise from relevant contributing authors, and discusses the active services and service agencies that are available to manage today's health issues.

New to the Third Edition: Nutritional epidemiology chapter; Environmental and economic concerns of today; Food security in global terms; World hunger and the implications to public health nutrition; and public health nutrition and fitness programs and services in America