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By Walter C. Willett. 299 pp. New York, Simon & Schuster, 2001. $25. ISBN 0-684-86337-5.

There is an interesting dilemma for those who would influence nutrition. In many places in the world, there are governmental agencies concerned with food security, food safety, agriculture, health, and trade that may, from time to time, implement policies that are at least intended to reduce the risk of chronic diseases. Most often, when the goals of agriculture and human health clash, it is the will of the agriculture sector that prevails (remember the European Union's "butter mountain" and "wine lake"?). In the United States, perhaps more than anywhere else, this has left an opening for self-help nutrition books. In . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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