Nutrition in war and peace.
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چکیده
I t is a privilege to appear before the State and Provincial Health Authorities of North America in this historic city. It is also an unusual opportunity and a heavy responsibility—an opportunity to explore with you new vistas in the promotion of human health and welfare, and the responsibility of doing justice in a brief address to a most important and complex subject. Let me begin by trying to recreate for you something of the atmosphere of the early 1930’s when the world witnessed the spectacle of hunger and malnutrition among vast numbers of unemployed workers and their families, while the world’s granaries were bursting with food that could not be sold. Food surpluses haunted the minds of leaders in government while bread lines formed below their windows and the unemployed sank lower and lower into misery. Governments bought up these food surpluses, dumped them abroad, denatured them so that they would be unfit for human use, or destroyed them. In these circumstances, the outbreak of a Second World War could not have come as a surprise to the most casual student of world affairs. It was at this time that delegates to the League of Nations, together with League officials, launched what came to be known as the world food movement, designed to release the economic jam by emphasizing that adequate diets were essential to human health, and that in supplying the raw materials for such diets, agriculture throughout the world would rise from its depression and in rising carry with it the industries
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ورودعنوان ژورنال:
- Canadian journal of public health = Revue canadienne de sante publique
دوره 38 8 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 1947