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HOW far the food ordinarily consumed by different individuals provides an adequate amount of the different dietary essentials, and to what extent an improvement in the diet might lead to a general improvement in health and wellbeing and a decrease in the incidence of disease, are important questions. The answers depend in the first place upon a knowledge of all the factors which go to make up a complete diet and of the quantity and quality of the food actually consumed. The essentials of a diet are now well established, but our knowledge of the adequacy of common diets is still very incomplete. The investigations of Cathcart and Murray on the diets of a number of families in St. Andrews have already been described (NATURE, 127, 897, June 13,1931): the same authors have now published the results of an investigation into the diets of 56 families in Cardiff and 57 families in Reading.*
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The Adequacy of Human Dietaries. Nature 130, 425 (1932). https://doi.org/10.1038/130425a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/130425a0