MALNUTRITION IN BRITAIN

Otago Daily Times, Issue 27040, 26 March 1949, Page 8

MALNUTRITION IN BRITAIN

Sir. —A. S. M. is apparently not aware that there are many ways of supplementing the basic rations in Britain. Hotel and restaurant meals, welfare meals in factories, and school meals are all pointless or coupon free. In spite of a world food shortage, the over-all consumption of food in Britain is not greatly less than before the war. British people to-day eat Blb of meat for every 101 b pre-war, 7oz of fat for every Boz, the same number of eggs, and 50 per cent, of the bacon, but they drink three pints for every two pre-war and eat 41b ox fish for every 31b, and have as well more dried fruit, more jam, more potatoes, more bread, and more flour. Don t forget, A. S. M.. that millions in Birtain are to-day eating food they could not afford to buy before the war. The rationing system is distributing food to all, and those who had lots of money to buy food before the war are the only “ moaners ’’ m Britain to-day. My correspondents ask for nothing else but cooking fats.—l am, etc., Malnutrition.