Nutrition: The position in English to-day
1936-11 1936 1930s 15 pages must contain sufficient variety to supply all the bodily needs for proteins, fats, carbohydrates, minerals and vitamins. The human body cannot continue to exist on one kind of food alone; for no single foodstuff contains all the necessary ingredients. Variety is necessary...
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| Institution: | MCR - The Modern Records Centre, University of Warwick |
| Language: | English English |
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London : Industrial Christian Fellowship
November 1936
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| Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/10796/083FB6B0-9BFA-46A5-8F0F-C790E20AE6B4 http://hdl.handle.net/10796/FE66CCB0-03CD-4B5E-BF49-065421584846 |
| Summary: | 1936-11
1936
1930s
15 pages
must contain sufficient variety to supply all the bodily needs for proteins, fats, carbohydrates, minerals and vitamins. The human body cannot continue to exist on one kind of food alone; for no single foodstuff contains all the necessary ingredients. Variety is necessary. Now it happens that foods which yield to the body energy alone are cheap and plentiful — white flour, sugar and margarine are good sources of energy, but they do not provide the body-building materials necessary to promote growth and health. Foods which do supply the other necessities are, unfortunately, relatively expensive and, when money is scarce, there is a tendency to consume too little of them and to make up the shortage with the purely energy giving foods. Body-building and health-promoting foods are known as "protective foods". They include milk, butter, cheese, eggs, liver, fish, meats, fruits and vegetables. The daily average consumption of these and similar food is, by millions of our people, inadequate. This statement applies particularly to dairy products and green vegetables. Women of the working classes are fully aware of the nutritive value of these classes of foodstuffs, but they simply cannot afford to buy adequate quantities of them. No woman will give her children margarine if she can afford butter. The poor housewife cannot let her family suffer from actual hunger, so she has to give them a sufficiency of cheap filling food, such as bread and sugar and margarine, to satisfy them. Though they may get enough in bulk and in energy-giving foods, they suffer from a shortage of the protective foods. It is not ignorance but poverty which dominates the marketing of our working-class women. This is shown by the fact that as their incomes rise they buy more 11
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