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Show Holes in the Horn of Plenty Today, supermarket shelves in the United States are overflowing over-flowing with the widest variety of nutrition foods in the world. And we far too many of us have partaken of these foods to the fullest extent. Some so much so that it si estimated that 25 per cent of the population is 10 per cent or more overweight. These facts might lead us to the conclusion that the U. S. nutrition picture is nearly perfect. Not so, say two scientists in a report published in a recent issue of the Journal of the American Dietetic Association. With this abundance of food, there remain disturbing . 1 "pockets of under nutrition throughout the country, according to Olaf Mickelsen, Ph.D., and James M. Hundley, . M.D., of the National Heart Institute. They classify special groups as the "Underfed" people who, for economic, educational or health reasons, do not consume con-sume a proper diet. Among the "Underfed," according to these scientists, are the American Indian, the Alaska Eskimo, migrant workers (who number more than 1,250,000), persons living in the poorer districts of large cities, and the aged. According t Drs. Mickelsen and Hundley, surveys of these, groups have shown that they regularly consume diets which do not provide "adequate" amounts of such vital nutrients as vitamins A. C and D, and some of the B vitamins. In fact, one group the migrant workers often subsists on a "diet consisting of corn meal and rice and very little else - : j no vitamins." Other nutritionists have expanded the "Underfed" classification classi-fication to include: teen-agers, particularly weight conscious girls; housewives, often too busy with family chores to eat properly; the business man or woman eating fragmentary meals on the run, and die food faddist. , |