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THE proceedings of one of the most useful conferences of recent years—the National Conference on the Wider Aspects of Nutrition organized by the British Medical Association and held in London at the end of April—have recently been published under the title “Nutrition and the Public Health” (B.M.A. House, W.C.1. Pp. 150. 2s. 6d. post paid). This conference, a report of which appeared in NATURE of May 6, p. 745, brought together representatives of medicine, agriculture, industry, administration and education to discuss in a comprehensive way the relation of human nutrition to the national welfare. It urged upon the Government the formulation of a long-term food policy in which the requirements of health, agriculture and industry should be considered in mutual relation, and recommended the inauguration of an educational campaign to make such a policy effective. The Conference ranged over a wide field, but as the published proceedings clearly indicate, there was the thread of the urgent need for an active, informed Government policy, which should take as its main objective the abolition of malnutrition, running through every discussion. the common benefit to the health of the individual citizen, to the prosperity of the home farmer (who would be largely responsible for the perishable ‘protective’ foods so essential to such a scheme) and to the efficiency of industry of such a policy forms the triple basis of what is undoubtedly one of the clearest and most influential appeals yet made for the early application of modern nutritional knowledge to national well-being.
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Nutrition and the Public Health. Nature 144, 186 (1939). https://doi.org/10.1038/144186c0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/144186c0