Praise From Unexpected Quarter
Heceived Thursday, 7 p.m. WASHlNaTON, Nov. 10. New Zealahd was ftamed today as au exaihple of ' 'the praetioabiuty and value of good food management, ' 1 in a report from the Food and Agricultural Organisatiop whiefi added, however, that not all nutrition prqblems liad been solved. ' 'Before the war the ehief deficiencies in the New Zealand diet were iron, iodine, caleium and" thiamine. Iodized salt was introdueed and the incidence of goitre aniong school ohildren felT fpqm 33 per cent. to 8 per cent. The use of a higher extraction of wheat douhled the im take of thiamine. At free milk schente eovering 90 per cent. of school children, was introdueed to overcome the deflciency of caMum. These, eoupled with the high level of food consumption, resulted in improved health and progressively lower mortaiity rates," The report added that despite thia, not all New Zealanders received the adequate oalorie level "because of a failure to distrihute food suppUes in aecordance with nutritional needs.
Permanent link to this item
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/CHRONL19481112.2.28
Bibliographic details
Chronicle (Levin), 12 November 1948, Page 5
Word Count
166Praise From Unexpected Quarter Chronicle (Levin), 12 November 1948, Page 5
Using This Item
NZME is the copyright owner for the Chronicle (Levin). You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of NZME. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.
Log in