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Diet and consumption choices affect nutrient intake and health. Four of the 10 leading causes of death in the United States have links to diet and cost over $200 billion annually in treatment and lost productivity. ERS research examines dietary quality, nutrient intake, and the roles of economic factors and nutrition education and information.

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National Obesity Prevention Conference sponsored by USDA.National Obesity Prevention Conference—The U.S. Department of Agriculture will host a National Obesity Prevention Conference on October 25-27, 2004 at the Hyatt Regency Hotel in Bethesda, Maryland. The goal of the conference is to identify research and actions needed to help prevent obesity by bringing together experts from government, universities, the food industry, and numerous medical and nutrition research facilities. This will be a science-based, multidisciplinary conference with a practical orientation that acknowledges the social, economic, and behavioral causes of poor dietary choices. The conference is open to the public and early registration is encouraged.

America's Eating Habits: Changes and Consequences provides a variety of perspectives on nutrition problems, including estimates of the economic costs of unhealthy diets, how much actual diets deviate from dietary recommendations, and the effects of nutrition knowledge, income, eating away from home, advertising, and regulations on diet quality.

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