Johanna Dwyer, DScRD, Assistant Administrator for Human Nutrition, Agricultural
Research Service at the USDA said, "Dr. Jean Mayer, the Director of the first
White House Conference on Food, Nutrition and Health, viewed nutrition not
only as a science, but as an agenda for solving problems. As his assistant
at that conference, I think that he would be pleased by the progress America
has made in solving many nutrition problems. But he would be the first to
call for continued emphasis on research and education to attack the problems
of overweight and obesity and would applaud the government-wide efforts that
are now being put into place and are documented on the website."