Key Takeaways:

• Summarizes federal priorities, grants, and education programs related to human nutrition at the end of the 1980s, offering a snapshot of official thinking about diet and disease.
• Provides an illuminating contrast with grassroots health-food literature, revealing which issues—fat, cholesterol, RDAs, food groups—dominated government agendas and which concerns (like organics or processing critiques) largely remained outside the frame.