NATIONAL DIET

Wairarapa Times-Age, 3 January 1940, Page 5

NATIONAL DIET

POSITION IN BERLIN SIR JOHN ORR’S SURVEY. VAST- RESERVES AVAILABLE. (British Official Wireless.) RUGBY, January 1. Sir John Boyd Orr, the distinguished nutrition authority, broadcasting today on ’the people’s food in war time,” said: "We are a better fed and a healthier nation today than we were at the beginning of the last war.” Referring to the position of the supply of milk-most important of protective foods —Sir John Orr said: “We have a great surplus of liquid milk going tor manufacturing purposes which might well be diverted to human consumption, and we are producing enough milk to permit an increase of 20 per cent in consumption and yet have a considerable surplus.” Speaking of two vital foodstuffs which Britain has had to continue to import —wheat and fat —Sir John recalled that Canada has had a bumper wheal, harvest and has twice as much as the whole of Germany. Thus Britain can obtain plenty of wheat by the safest and shortest sea route. Also the Ministry of Food has built up an enormous store of fat. Sir John Orr contended: "We could cut down our imports to wheat and fat, which would be only a mere fraction of the total imports in peace time, and still have a national diet which would keep everybody healthy and physically fit.”