Abstract
THIS book opens with a brief and sound chapter on the need for a food policy. It includes, in separate chapters, data on bread, milk and milk products, eggs, meat, bacon, fish, vegetables and fruit, tea and sugar. The foundation for a food policy must be requirements for health, and the general standard used is the amount required when consumption in lower income groups in Orr's “Food, Health and Income” is raised to that of Group IV, higher groups continuing as before. For milk, the higher scale recommended by the Ministry of Health Advisory Committee on Nutrition is used. These detailed discussions are followed by general chapters on agriculture, distribution, food in war and the improvement of nutrition.
Britain's Food Supplies in Peace and War
A Survey prepared for the Fabian Society by Charles Smith. Pp. x + 290. (London: George Routledge and Sons, Ltd., 1940.) 10s. 6d. net.
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Britain's Food Supplies in Peace and War. Nature 146, 632–633 (1940). https://doi.org/10.1038/146632a0
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