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Introduces the bio-cultural influences on nutrition and their relevance to international and domestic public health research and programs. Includes topics: theoretical and methodological issues in nutritional anthropology, an overview of social scientific contributions to nutrition focusing on cultural perspectives of infant feeding, social impacts on under- and overnutrition, comparisons of Eastern and Western traditions of nutrition, and the role of nutritional anthropology in the development of public health interventions.