FOOD CONFERENCE

Press, Volume LXXIX, Issue 23965, 4 June 1943, Page 5

FOOD CONFERENCE

PROPOSED MINIMUM DIETARY (Rec. 11.30 p.m.) HOT SPRINGS (Virginia), June 3. With the publication of the nutrition section’s report, the United Nations’ Food Conference has practically concluded. This report submits a minimum dietary standard for the world which, in simple terms, gives the following daily ration; 10 ounces of grain products, such as bread and cereals; slightly more than a pint of milk; eight ounces of starchy vegetables such as potatoes or yams; slightly more than an ounce of leguminous vegetables such as peas or beans; four ounces of citrus fruits or tomatoes; four ounces of green vegetables; six ounces of meat, fish, or poultry: three ounces of butter or other fats; two ounces of sugar; one and a half eggs. The nutrition section, while strongly advocating sufficient vitamins, frowns on the indiscriminate distribution of synthetic vitamins, which is not recommended as a public health procedure. HEALTH IN BRITAIN IMPROVES (8.0. W.) ' RUGBY, June 2, Sir Wilson Jameson, Chief Medical Officer at the Ministry of Health, stated in London that Britain’s health still showed an improvement. This was a result of a number of factors, he said. Everybody who was capable of being employed was employed and, although people might be uncomfortable in certain ways, they could afford things that they might not have been able to afford before the war. Another factor was that they had a much simpler diet. He instanced the national loaf, and more vegetables, and the fact that the British, were no longer eating too much meat. , Sir Wilson Jameson added that deaths from diphtheria in Germany last year totalled 236,000—three limes Germjmyjyverag^gure^^^^^^^