Maternal and Childhood Nutritional Disorders Prevention and Information Act of 1979

[AI summary unavailable — showing source text] Maternal and Childhood Nutritional Disorders Prevention and Information Act of 1979 - Directs the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare to develop, through existing programs under the Social Security Act and the Public Health Security Act: (1) scientific diagnostic procedures to assess human nutritional status and to detect childhood metabolic hereditary disorders; (2) regional centers for the detection of metabolic hereditary disorders in newborn infants; and (3) programs to (A) establish referral procedures for treatment of children and pregnant women vulnerable to nutritional disorders and (B) inform pregnant women of proper nutrition and the adverse effect of alcohol consumption. Directs the Secretary to report annually to Congress on such activities. Directs the Secretaries of Health, Education, and Welfare and Agriculture to: (1) develop coordinating mechanisms with respect to human nutrition research activities; (2) develop research programs to determine human nutrition requirements for optimal fetal, perinatal, and childhood development; (3) develop certain nutrition and dietary guidelines and inform nutrition recommendations; and (4) measure the effect of current pro…