Military Nutrition Challenges Mirror Those of U.S. Population.

The article discusses relevance of nutrition for the military as important for the food industry and U.S. population for learning from achievements and challenges of food and nutrition science in the military. Topics include need of eating more by deployed war fighters to sustain energy and muscle mass, high altitude missions based on the dependence on glucose as a fuel source for exercise at altitude and higher protein intake at higher elevations contributing to altitude related anorexia.