Diet in Europe
MORE FRUIT EATEN. « People in Europe, including Britain, arc eating moro fresh vegetables and fruit and better quality moat. At the sarno time they are consuming less beer, wino and bread. These facts about the increased consumption of foodstuffs compared with pre-war years, are recorded in tho third report ok the League of >T 'ntions on tho problem ox nutrition.
Tho survey, which reviows the dietary conditions in various countries, has been drawn up by tho Secretariat of tho League. Tho report gives tho following iigures showing tho estimated annual consumption per head of tho population in the United Kingdom of the chief foodstuffs for the live years preceding tho war and for 193-1: — Fruit, 1909-13, 61b., 1931, 1151 b.; vegetables, 60ib., 1611 b.; potatoes, 2081 b., 1011 b.; sugar, 791 b., 1191 b.; meat, 1351 b., 1061 b.; wheat flour - , 2111 b., 931 b.; eggs (in numbers), 101, 116.
Increases are most marked, tho report points out, in relation to “protective’ ’ foods containing vitamins. It adds that the consumption of liquid milk shows a slight falling-off, coupled with a rapid growth in the consumption of condensed milk, leaving the aggregate unchanged.
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Manawatu Times, Volume 61, Issue 217, 14 September 1936, Page 11
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195Diet in Europe Manawatu Times, Volume 61, Issue 217, 14 September 1936, Page 11
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