Title:

Nutrition and Health Promotion: Presented to a Luncheon Meeting of the Wheat Industry Council, Washington, DC

Creator:

Koop, Charles Everett, 1916-2013

Date:

8 September 1982

Description:

This speech highlighted the connection between Americans' diet and their health, especially heart disease, a major focus of the U.S. Surgeon General since Koop's predecessor, Julius Richmond, devoted to it a section of his path breaking report "Healthy People: The Surgeon General's Report on Health Promotion and Disease Prevention," issued in 1979.

Location:

Box: 103. Folder: 67

Rights:

Public Domain

Genre:

Speeches

Subject:

Health Education, Health Promotion, Nutritional Physiological Phenomena, and Mortality

Format:

Text

Extent:

22 pages

Relation:

Nutrition and Health Promotion: Presented to a Luncheon Meeting of the Wheat Industry Council, Washington, DC" [Reminiscence], 2003
Healthy People: The Surgeon General's Report on Health Promotion and Disease Prevention, 1979

Language:

English

Legacy ID:

QQBBBW

NLM ID:

101584930X17

Profiles Collection:

The C. Everett Koop Papers

Shareable Link:

https://profiles.nlm.nih.gov/101584930X17

Story Section:

Reproduction and Family Health