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IN these days of fortress economics, a special responsibility should burden those who set out to give information about food to the multitude, and it is only fair that their books should be submitted to searching criticism. From such a stern test Dr. Bourne's book emerges certainly not unscathed but with its fabric still fundamentally sound and a prognosis of useful service. It is entertainingly and well written and in places surprisingly up to date ; its successive chapters deal in simple language with energy and food ; proteins, fats and carbohydrates ; vitamins ; minerals, and nutrition in war-time. Nearly half the book is taken up by tables setting out the calorie, protein, carbohydrate, fat, mineral and vitamin content of a variety of products.
Nutrition and the War
By Dr. Geoffrey Bourne. Second edition, revised and enlarged. Pp. xii + 148. (Cambridge: At the university Press, 1942.) 4s. 6d. net.
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KON, S. [Book Reviews]. Nature 149, 453 (1942). https://doi.org/10.1038/149453a0
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