BETTER FED.

Taranaki Central Press, Volume IV, Issue 414, 22 April 1937, Page 3

BETTER FED.

PEOPLE OF BRITAIN. Expert Investigation. “We' are eating more —and more sensibly—as a nation than before the war, but we need more milk, fruit, green vegetables.', potatoes and fish, especially mackerel and herring.” So concludes an expert committee, presided over by Lord Luke, in a report to the British Minister of Health. The report recommends action to increase the consumption of the foods mentioned, and Sir Kingsley Wood, Minister of Health, has sent a memorandum to local authorities asking them to do all they can. t “Make it easy for all who need it to get milk,” he advises, “and extend the system of free or cheap meals for mothers of young children. Give special treatment to nursing and expectant mothers, and children.” Another special committee, on which are working-class housewives, »s examining 10,000 working-class household budgets, to see where the money can be spent to better advantage. This inquiry will be based largely on .the finding of Lord Luke’.s committee that:

Expectant and nursing mothers might to have at least t'Wo pints of milk a day, children one to two pints, and everybody in the .population not less- than half a pint. This would average about seveneighths of a pint per head, while the present average is half a pint, slightly lower than pre-war days. Nettling would increase the nation’s fitness and power to resist disease so much as a largely increased consumption of safe milk, says the report. It is not true that skimmed milk loses all nutritive value, and the committee deplores the waste of skimmed milk.