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The Nutrition factor : its role in national development / created by Alan Berg

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: The Brookings institution, 1973Copyright date: ©1973Description: xii, 290 pages : 24 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9780815709145
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • TX353 BER
Contents:
The malnutrition problem Malnutrition and development Improved nutrition and the population dilemma Economic growth, income, and nutrition Nutritional effects of agricultural advances Educating for better nutrition The crisis in infant feeding practices The new foods Problems and promise of private industry Feeding children through public programs Lessons from the Indian experiment Policy directions and program needs
Summary: Monograph examining malnutrition as an obstacle to economic development in developing countries - discusses ways of improving nutrition, such as changing agricultural policy and incomes policy, developing a technique of nutrition education (incl. The use of mass media), changing infant feeding practices, the use of new and fortified foods and protein rich food, etc., and includes recommendations in respect of the role of private enterprise, the development of children feeding programmes, etc. References and statistical tables
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

The malnutrition problem Malnutrition and development Improved nutrition and the population dilemma Economic growth, income, and nutrition Nutritional effects of agricultural advances Educating for better nutrition The crisis in infant feeding practices The new foods Problems and promise of private industry Feeding children through public programs Lessons from the Indian experiment Policy directions and program needs

Monograph examining malnutrition as an obstacle to economic development in developing countries - discusses ways of improving nutrition, such as changing agricultural policy and incomes policy, developing a technique of nutrition education (incl. The use of mass media), changing infant feeding practices, the use of new and fortified foods and protein rich food, etc., and includes recommendations in respect of the role of private enterprise, the development of children feeding programmes, etc. References and statistical tables

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