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Show MALNUTRITION IS SERIOUS PROBLEM Nutritional surveys conducted during the past decade indicate that malnutrition is a serious problem on the farm as well as in the city, according to Dr. W. H. Sebrell, Medical Director of the U. S. Public Health Service, who points out that the problem exists among people who have plenty of money to spend for food as well as among those who live on relief re-lief allowances It has been generally accepted that nutritional deficiency diseases resulted from poverty but, in view of recent studies, it must be concluded con-cluded that some of them are the result of ignorance. This calls for a campaign of education to reach all classes of people and to distribute dis-tribute information as to proper diet to maintain and restore bodily bod-ily health. One of the interesting facts of human existence is the apparent failure of individuals, through many centuries, to study food in its relation to good health. Only in the lifetime of those of the present pres-ent generation have we heard about vitamins and even now, the average individual is an ignoramus ignora-mus in regard to diet and nutritional nutri-tional deficiency diseases. |