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The Problem of Changing Food Habits Report of the Committee on Food Habits 1941-1943 (1943) / Chapter Skim
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Research in the Field of Food Habits, May 23-24, 1941
Pages 127-140

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From page 127...
... Techniques: garden project under care of expert gardener for ~6 families; canning service; cooking and menu planning service; nutrition education-moving pictures, posters, newspaper articles, form letters, public talks and lectures, nutrition literature, personal conferences, nutrition classes held in prenatal and well-baby clinics; school lunch project expected to expand so every school in county will serve adequate lunch for nominal cost, produce or work, school garden. Cooperating Agencies: U
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From page 128...
... Council of county agencies formed to coordinate services to needy families Red Cross in charge of emergency programs. Garden project, hot lunch program, increased use of whole grain cereals, summer study project for teachers, youth council (high school students)
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From page 129...
... Among WPA personnel, i3~ had low hemoglobin values, to had low plasma ascorbic acid levels, 35%0 showed ocular manifestations of ariboflavinosis less prevalent but more severe than
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From page 130...
... Possible to influence 96-97% of farmers; usually touch about 7570. Two studies bearing on food habits; measurement of growth in knowledge resulting from 4-5 months' participation in 4-H Club work-showed where changes needed; survey of home food production and consumption habits of farm families in two Ohio counties sample areas represented good and bad land; about ~ tenant families with cash expenditure per year under $400.
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From page 131...
... Question: Do same relationships prevail among adults, so home visiting teacher or worker can get family or family November to take over new goals ? Study made in rural community with special emphasis on techniques whereby rapport was developed which established cooperative relationship (submitted for bulletin, E
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From page 132...
... Diet one phase of Italian culture which has yielded least to outside pressure. "Little Italys" support own green grocers, bakeries (decade ago served primarily as community ovens)
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From page 133...
... Earliest American survey of food habits recorded was state survey made in 870's concentrating primarily on rural population. First really scientific surveys made by Atwater in Massachusetts in late i880's.
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From page 134...
... Later hope to reconstruct local history, see effect of introduction of new techniques of food production on social stratification leadership, and land tenure. Intend to keep food habits central to investigation.
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From page 135...
... Broad statistical mean of food habits fails within any given area because of cultural divisions. Will try to separate out the differential cultural elements that are ~,jO _ _ ,, _ ~ usually merged In a statistical average ot dietary habits-will be advance toward a more significant and richly suggestive type of study.
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From page 136...
... Phipard (Bureau of Human Nutrition and Home Economics, United States Dept. of Agriculture)
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From page 137...
... Many families spend enough but do not obtain an adequate diet: threefourths of non-relief families in villages and cities included in Consumer Purchases Study spent enough to get adequate diets. With expenditures above a certain minimum, diet depends on how food dollar is invested.
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From page 138...
... Food budgets for farm families in nearly every state Extension Service together with State Agricultural College promoting "live at home" programs designed to help farm families get as much of food supply as possible from farm; integral part of Farm Security Administration. When disaster cuts down hone-grown food leaflet prepared jointly by Bureau Home Economics, Extension Service, and Children's Bureau, to help families adjust to devastation caused by droughts or floods.
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From page 139...
... Original group included all families of two or more persons eligible for relief; did not include one-person families, aged or blind. Before program went into effect White families bought ~.63 quarts per person per week at ~¢ per quart; Negro families bought o.8~ quarts per person per week.
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... 645. .Low priced milk and the consumption of dairy products among low income families, Washington, D
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Key Terms

  • home economics
  • changing food
  • extension service
  • agricultural economics
  • adequate diet

  • poor diets
  • ascorbic acid
  • consumer purchases
  • white families
  • food production

  • low income
  • farm families
  • purchases study
  • children ate
  • negro families

  • human nutrition
  • food budgets
  • low hemoglobin
  • families included
  • food consumption

  • plasma ascorbic
  • lunch program
  • eligible families
  • states dept
  • experiment station

  • hemoglobin values
  • italian stock
  • food expenditures
  • land tenure
  • family food


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