The Assessment of Nutrition

NUTRITION might well be regarded as the Ciniderella of the sciences; but wilihin recent vears people have come to treat it with increasing respect. After all, foodstuffs are only produced to provide niourishment, and the average man spen(ds almost half his wvorking hours earning moniey with which to btuy food. As a result of this increased interest, food, and its relation to health aned disease, is now beiing more closelv studied. Nutrition has been defined bv Sir George Newmanl as "Tl he total well-beingc ancd right funictioning of the whole body." Mlagee2 quotes Cathcart, wNho terms it a state of "eutrophia" rather than "eusitia," i.e., a state of "well-nourishedness"