Show FROM THE COUNTY Department of Health Mary P PUN DON'T RELY ENTIRELY ON VITAMINS FOR NUTRITION The fallacy of relying on vitamin supplements to do the job of proper diet is decried in a recent American Journal of official publication of the American Nurses' In Nutrition from Food Not Frederick J. head of the department of nutrition at Harvard School of Public warns against food fads and self-medication with There are limits to the body's tolerance for and an overdose is possible much as it is with medicines Stare vitamins are medication and should be prescribed for the individual by his According to the most significant advance in nutrition science in the past decade is the addition of fluoride to infant vitamin He also sees in fluoride a potentials defense against the metabolic bone diseases of Increased emphasis is being placed on optimum nutrition to promote faster recovery from acute in and in rehabilitation after injuries to muscles and he Four basic food groups are set forth by which includes fish and fruits and and grain At least two servings from the meat some milk ice four or more servings of bread or cereal provide a basic diet pattern which applies to Stare Each food group is Only the amount may be reduced or increased according to the needs of the Foods have an interaction that must be Animal experiments show that if the different nutrients required for metabolism are not present at the same time in the essential nutrients cannot be |