the National Research Council {NRC} hired a team of anthropologists, led by the venerable Margaret Mead, to study American food habits. How do people decide what's good to eat, and how do you go about changing their minds? Studies were undertaken, recommendations drafted, reports published-including Mead's 1943 opus The Problem of Changing Food Habits: Report of the Committee on Food Habits, and if ever a case were to be made for word-rationing, there it was. The
The National Research Council enlisted a team of anthropologists, headed by Margaret Mead, to examine American food habits. Their goal was to understand how individuals determine what foods are acceptable and what methods could effectively alter these preferences. This effort led to comprehensive studies, the formulation of recommendations, and the publishing of reports, including Mead's significant work from 1943 titled "The Problem of Changing Food Habits: Report of the Committee on...
