A food 'lifeboat': food and nutrition considerations in the event of a pandemic or other catastrophe (letter)

Title: A food 'lifeboat': food and nutrition considerations in the event of a pandemic or other catastrophe (letter)
Creator: Dalton, Craig B.; Cretikos, Michelle A.; Durrheim, David N.
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
Publisher: Australasian Medical Publishing Company
Resource Type: journal article
Date: 2008
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.
Subject: food stockpiling; disaster planning; nutrition; balanced diet; pandemic
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/41290
Identifier: uon:4715
Identifier: ISSN:0025-729X
Language: eng
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