IMPROVED NUTRITION

Evening Star, Issue 22146, 28 September 1935, Page 17

IMPROVED NUTRITION

LEAGUE ENDORSES MR BRUCE’S RESOLUTION Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright GENEVA, September 27. (Received September 28, at 1 a.m;) The Assembly unanimously approved of Mr S. M. Bruce’s nutrition resolution. The Council will appoint a committee of experts, probably 12, including Mr MacDougall. [Mr ‘Bruce’s resolution in effect urges Governments to examine practical means of securing increased consumption of foods, and invited the League Council to instruct its technical organisations to collect information on the measures of the Various' countries for improved nutrition through increased consumption of food. Mr Bruce argued that by increased consumption of certain foodstuffs specified diseases could be eliminated, and unless people were given the benefit of science a social upheaval was inevitable.] SYSTEMATIC INVESTIGATION PLANNED (British Official Wireless.) . RUGBY, September 27. (Received September 28, at noon.) The League Assembly to-day approved of Qie reports of commissions on a number of subjects, including one providing for the l extension of the investigation into nutrition in relation to public health, and the appointment of a committee of agricultural, economic, and health experts to report to the seventeenth Assembly oh the question of improved nutrition in relation to agricultural recovery.