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- Title
- A food 'lifeboat': food and nutrition considerations in the event of a pandemic or other catastrophe (letter)
- Author/Creator
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Dalton, Craig B.;
Cretikos, Michelle A.;
Durrheim, David N.
- Institution
- The University of Newcastle. Faculty of Health, School of Medicine and Public Health
- Description
- To the editor : The article by Haug and colleagues on household food stockpiling is a useful contribution to a neglected aspect of disaster planning. However, rather than providing a guide to what foods should be stockpiled, it may be more valuable to encourage families to increase the amount and rotation of the non-perishables they currently purchase. The authors seek to promote a balanced nutritional diet, but encouraging a family to continue their usual purchasing patterns when stockpiling for a pandemic or other disaster is a simpler, more sustainable, and possibly more effective way to promote household food stockpiling. We must assume that the family currently survives, for better or worse, on their current food purchase pattern.
- Relation
- Medical Journal of Australia Vol. 188, Issue 11
- Relation
- http://www.mja.com.au/public/issues/188_11_020608/letters_020608_fm-5.html
- Date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Australasian Medical Publishing Company
- Keyword(s)
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food stockpiling;
disaster planning;
nutrition;
balanced diet;
pandemic
- Resource Type
- journal article
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/41290
- Identifier
- ISSN:0025-729X
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