"The foods we eat affect all dimensions of health and wellness. For example, a teen with Type 2 diabetes (a disease brought on by poor diet) is first diagnosed by physical signs and symptoms such as increased ur ination, thirstiness, and unexplained weight loss. But research has also found that teens with Type 2 diabetes have impaired thinking and do not interact well with others in school, thereby affecting psychological and social well - being. Type 2 diabetes is just one example of a physiological disease that affects multiple dimensions of health — physical, psychological, and social. Public Health and Disease Prevention In 1894, the first congressional funds were appropriated to the US Department of Agriculture (U SDA) for the study of the relationship between nutrition and human health. Dr. Wilbur Olin Atwater was appointed as the Chief of Nutrition Investigations and is accoladed as the “Father of Nutrition Science” in America.Combs, G.F. “Celebration of the Past: Nutrition at USDA.” J Nutr 124, no. 9 supplement (1994): 1728S – 32S. Under his guidance, the USDA released the first bulletin to the American public that contained information on the amounts of fat, carbohydrates, proteins, and food energy (calories) in various foods. Nutritional science advanced considerably in these early years, but it took until 1980 for the USDA and the US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to jointly release the first edition of Nutrition and Your Health: Dietary Guideline s for Americans . Although wide distribution of dietary guidelines did not come about until the 1980s, many historical events that demonstrated the importance of diet to health preceded their release. Assessments of the American diet in the 1930s led Presid ent Franklin D. Roosevelt to declare in his inaugural address on January 20, 1937, “I see one - third of our nation is ill - housed, ill - clad, and ill - nourished.” From the time of Atwater until the onset of the Great Depression nutritional scientists had disco vered many of the vitamins and"