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IT has been known for many years that faulty diet is the direct cause of a heavy mortality throughout the world through deficiency diseases such as pellagra and beriberi, and, even in the wealthiest countries, of a great deal of ill-health. It has also been known that diseases due to faulty diet are possibly the easiest of all to prevent. Yet we are only now beginning to make a survey of the extent of the damage being done to the human race by malnutrition, and of our food resources available to prevent that damage.
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ORR, J. National Nutrition Policies. Nature 143, 459–460 (1939). https://doi.org/10.1038/143459a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/143459a0