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Show Researcher Tells Of Diet Deficiency Nutrition tests conducted over a period of 18 years have produced convincing evidence that vitamin C subnutrition is prevalent throughout Utah, Mrs. Almeda Ferry Brown, acting dean of the school of home economics, declared de-clared Thursday night as she presented the annual faculty research re-search lecture. Speaking before a large group of students, faculty members and guests in the USAC auditorium, Dean Brown discussed the "nutritional "nu-tritional status of some Utah population groups." She began her discussion by tracing the development of nutrition, nu-trition, which she termed els "the youngest in the family of sciences,'' from the days of the famous French chemist, Antonie Lavoisier, to the present time. Dean Brown outlined in detail the nutritional studies carried out by the Utah Experiment station. "The first nutritional investigations investi-gations at USAC and the Experiment Experi-ment station, were of a statistical statisti-cal type, and the population group concerned was the farm family," she declared. . "That experiment was conducted by 43 housewives who weighed and recorded all foods served to their families for an entire year. "Significant was the fact that an analysis of their data revealed the lack of an inadequate supply of iron, phosphorus and animal protein, caused by insufficiencies of lean meat, fruit and vegetables," vege-tables," Dean Brown pointed out. "Experiments we conduct today, reveal the same deficiencies." Later the tests were expanded to include school children between (Continued on Page Four) |