Boyle (nutrition, College of Saint Elizabeth) and Holben (human and consumer sciences, Ohio University) offer a text for students in community nutrition, with sections on the community nutritionist in action, current federal and nongovernmental programs designed to meet the food and nutritional needs of vulnerable populations, and tools for designing programs that address nutritional and health problems in communities. This fourth edition contains information about new dietary guidelines and legislation, updates on world hunger, material on initiatives for schools, and a new chapter on obesity. Annotation ©2005 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR More Reviews and Recommendations

Dr. Marie A. Boyle is Adjunct Professor and former Director of the Graduate Program in Nutrition at the College of Saint Elizabeth in Morristown, N. J. , and is Editor of the new "Journal of Hunger & Environmental Nutrition" for Haworth Press. She holds a B. A. in Psychology from the University of Southern Maine, and received her M. S. and Ph. D. in Nutrition from Florida State University. Marie Boyle is the author of two successful texts, PERSONAL NUTRITION, Sixth Edition, co-authored with Sara Long (Thomson, 2007), and COMMUNITY NUTRITION IN ACTION: AN ENTREPRENEURIAL APPROACH, Fourth Edition, co-authored with Dr. David Holben (Thomson, 2006). Dr. David H. Holben is Associate Professor and Director of the Didactic Program in Dietetics at Ohio University. He completed a B. S. in Dietetics at Indiana University of Pennsylvania, a dietetic internship at Detroit's Harper Hospital, a MA in Food Science and Nutrition/Food Service Management at Wayne State University, and both a MS and Ph. D. in Human Nutrition from The Ohio State University. He is the co-author of COMMUNITY NUTRITION IN ACTION: AN ENTREPRENEURIAL APPROACH, Fourth Edition (Thomson, 2006) and numerous scholarly works related to food security and hunger.

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