He was also a member of international nutrition committees.

The Millburn school district has formed a 10-member nutrition committee of parents and educators to devise a plan for promoting healthier eating, said the superintendent, Dr. Richard Brodow.

The report was written for the society's nutrition committee, by Connie Roberts, a dietitian at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston.

It was signed, in childish handwriting, "The nutrition committee."

The nutrition committee?

From 1947 to 1948 he was a member of the Economic Council, and chairman of the nutrition committee.

"That is serious calories," said Alice H. Lichtenstein, a Tufts University professor who is chairwoman of the nutrition committee of the American Heart Association.

Iasked Ronald Krauss--a doctor who, as the immediate past chairman of the American Heart Association's nutrition committee, helped write that statement--whether it was aggressive enough.

Dr. John LaRosa, dean for clinical affairs and former chairman of the nutrition committee for the American Heart Association, agreed.

In previous policy statements, the academy's nutrition committee has shied away from recommending major dietary changes in young children for fear that they may compromise growth and development.