Nutrition and the War

Abstract

IN Great Britain there has been, in the last few years, a great improvement in the national dietary which has been accompanied by a corresponding improvement in national health. The limit of improvement has not yet been reached. The increase in physical fitness of recruits drawn from the poorer class after a few months in the Army and of slum children evacuated to the country is an indication of the extent to which national health and physical fitness can be still further increased. All we have learned of nutrition in the last twenty-five years suggests that food is probably the most important factor in this improvement in physical fitness. The author of this little book gives some striking illustrations of the connexion between diet and physical fitness.

Nutrition and the War

By Dr. Geoffrey Bourne. Pp. xii + 126. (Cambridge: At the University Press, 1940.) 3s. 6d. net.