NUTRITION FAULTS.

Auckland Star, Volume LXVIII, Issue 248, 19 October 1937, Page 8

NUTRITION FAULTS.

ROOT OF LATER ILLS. NEED FOR PRE SCHOOL CARE. The desirability of increased care of the child of preschool age, the use ot protective foods and the formation of ;i national nutrition authority w;i pointed out by Dr. E. B. fJunson las' night when he addressed a gathering r> Plunket workers and Karitane nurseDγ. C.unson said that faulty an- , inadequate nutrition, particularly dui ing childhood years, was a root caus of disease in later life. There wei. no reports to indicate what was hap jiening to children between the tinn when they passed beyond the super vision of the Plunket Society and whe; they became of school age, but at the bitter stage very large numbers of thei were found to be suffering from sue!' minor but far from unimportant d< , fects as dental caries, minor bon. troubles and incipient goitre. International research showed that fnults of nutrition could be regarded the fundamental problem. Foods were divided into those which were protective against disease and those which produced energy, the first and more important class—as far as New Zea landers' diet was concerned —including dairy produce, green leaf vegetables fruit, some fish, some liver and eggs. It was essential that the work should commence with the children.