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The Relation of Modern Food Science to Nutrition
The Relation of Modern Food Science to Nutrition
Pages 19-28
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The Hindu mother sitting in the doorway of her home near Calcutta follows the centuries-old ceremony of massaging her infant with mustard seed oil while the child is held naked on her lap in full sunshine. Before that, she spends hours gathering mustard seed and expressing a small quantity of oil.
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This is one of the basic problems in democracies, so we have no choice other than to take seriously and patiently our obligation to convey the lessons of science to the public. The efficiency with which our present population is protected in health by an attractive food supply available to everyone, is certainly a major factor in our increased economic strength and in our total potential for cultural progress.
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fruits, berries, and melons -- oranges, lemons, grapefruit, strawberries, cantaloupe, bananas, peaches, apples, and avocados. Since the educational campaign conducted during the years 1940-45, and the parallel advances in food technology, the classical deficiency diseases such as rickets, scurvy, pellagra, goiter, sprue, and other forms of severe vitamin deficiency have practically disappeared except for individual cases of gross personal neglect.
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(b) Vitamin D standardization of some fluid milk and of nearly all evaporated and dehydrated milk in addition to special infant foods has practically eliminated rickets and related minor deficiencies, at very low cost -- and without injury.
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(e) Canned foods have been a major factor in making a great variety of stable high quality products available in nearly every home, village, and camp in the United States and Canada.
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Initial clear signs of injury, however, are nearly always progressive with increased quantities. Complete data of this kind may require much research, but in practice, this kind of approach applies equally well to essential nutrients, nonessential nutrients, and materials that are commonly regarded as toxic or poisonous.
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Closely akin to the problem of exact fat composition is the search to discover to what degree genetic trends and the intake of specific minerals, sugars, vitamins, proteins, and total calories can affect the observed changes in fat deposition, blood clotting, hardening of the arteries, and glandular functions. In stark contrast to our problem of excess calories (and perhaps an excess of "rich foods")
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The outlook for good dividends from intensive research and education is brighter now than ever before. They will serve well in the face of rising population pressures, precautions against the risks of war, needs for increased efficiency in protecting health, and in the crucial competitive need for strengthening the constructive economic and social forces in all parts of the world.
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(4) The growing interdependence of men in different fields of science, in different types of industry, and in different areas of civic responsibility, stands out more clearly now than ever before.
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