PUBLIC HEALTH AND WORLD TRADE
FOOD AND ECONOMICS CORRELATED. NUTRITION COMMITTEE MEETS. (United Press Assn. —Telegraph Copyright.) (Rec. 5.5 p.m.) Geneva, February 10. “Restore the public health and you will restore world trade,” said Lord Astor at the opening session of the Nutrition Committee •which is presided over by Mr S. M. Bruce (Australia). Lord Astor said that tactful skill would be required to persuade people that specific diseases could be avoided by an improved dietary, physique could be improved, robustness could replace weakness, and contentment and wellbeing could replace disharmony _ and discontentment. If this were achieved the whole economic policy of certain nations might be affected. The whole structure of agriculture would be influenced by a marked increase in the demand for perishable products such as milk and vegetables, and might result in farmers becoming less insistent on State help for their sugar and wheat crops. The result would be a gradual increase in the international exchange of goods, leading to the restoration of world trade. The committee decided that at present it would confine the nutrition inquiry to Western countries.
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Southland Times, Issue 22813, 12 February 1936, Page 7
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