BETTER NUTRITION

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 88, Issue 12, 15 January 1944, Page 5

BETTER NUTRITION

WORLD FOOD PLAN URGED Recd. 6 p.m. Rugby, Jan. 12. Urging that a world plan for food be the first step towards a new and better world, and that Britain should take a lead in the matter, the Labour Party has issued a pamphlet entitled “The Nation’s Food,” based on a memorandum by Sir John Boyd-Orr, who has been a member of a number of national and international commissions on nutrition and is not a member of the Labour Party. The pamphlet says that as recently as 1942 a committee of members of the House of Lords estimated that the following increases were necessary to bring the diet of the whole population up to full health standard: Fruit 70 per cent., milk 65 per cent., eggs 60 per cent., vegetables 60 per cent, and meat 25 per cent. The report suggests that a permanent food commission of recognised authorities on nutrition, agriculture and distribution of finance be appointed by the Ministry of Food and charged with the task of seeing that the national larder contains sufficient basic foo_ds to meet the nutritional requirements of the whole population and that distribution and prices are arranged so that every family can obtain a diet adequate "for health. The pamphlet advocates that at least one adequate meal a day be pro--1 vided for all school children, the extension of communal restaurants, at least until food is so plentiful and the standard-of living so high that every family can have the opportunity of occasionally dining out. It also favours measures to ensure one good meal at all works and factories.--8.0.W.