IMPORTANCE OF FOOD

Waikato Times, Volume 125, Issue 20910, 15 September 1939, Page 3

IMPORTANCE OF FOOD

A FIELD FOR WOMEN Recent developments in the field of dietetics in England, in relation to general food services as well as special diets, suggest a growing, if rather slow, appreciation of a problem that is world-wide in its’ramilications. At tlie meeting last year in Edinburgh of the International Council of Women, one of the speakers was Sir John Boyd urr, director of the Rowetl Research Institute, Aberdeen, whose talk on nutrition provoked so much interest and discussion that he was asked to write a special article on the subject lor the international Council Bulletin. Among the statements which he made in that article, which was published recently was the following:— “ If the women of the world would only unite in using their power to promote the application of the new knc>wi«uge of nutrition in all countries tney would bring health and happiness to millions of mothers and children, and help to bring about economic prosperity, which would remove the cause of war and hasten the new age of peace and plenty which modern science has made possible. A few years ago a handful of resolute British women secured votes for women in their country. If JO per cent 6f the women of ajny nation were as determined and enthusiastic about securing a diet adequate lor health for the mothers and children there would soon be at least one Government which would adopt a food policy based on the dietary requirements for health ”