The Problem of Changing Food Habits Report of the Committee on Food Habits 1941-1943 (1943) / Chapter Skim
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Problems of Food Supply, Food Habits, and Nutrition in China, February 11, 1943
Problems of Food Supply, Food Habits, and Nutrition in China, February 11, 1943
Pages 165-167
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In Occupied China there are great deficiencies due to poor crops and floods, and in addition there is very little organization to meet the problems of collecting, marketing, storage, and distribution in particular. There is little possibility of sending food to China now, but when it can be sent in they will need quantities of wheat, wheat products, soy beans, and rice, and small quantities of dairy products, meats, marine products, and a few concentrated vitamin supplements.
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When a baby is four months old, egg yolk is added to furnish more nutrients, and in some cases cod liver oil, a few drops daily, is supplemented. An experimental attempt to feed boys coming into the factories from the country districts showed that an adequate diet could be furnished even on the extremely meager money allowance.
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There is danger that the white flour habit might be fastened upon the Chinese. Enriched flour is hardly the solution because Chinese methods of cooking wheat flour noodles involve discarding the liquid in which they were boiled.
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