National Nutrition Policies

Abstract

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.