- 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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