Farming, Saturday, December'6,' 1969 <», Ignorance & Misinformation Are Causes Of Malnutrition In U.S. “Moic Americans arc mal nourished because of ignorance and misinformation than be cause of poverty." believes Dr George V Mann, nutritionist from Vanderbilt University Dr Mann stated in an article in the November issue of Food and Nutrition News: “If poverty were the cause of malnutrition we would have a ready solution in this affluent society money . . . Education is not so easily accomplished ” Dr. Mann, who has conducted NOW! IS THE TIME TO PURCHASE YOUR REMINGTON CHAIN SAW <aHBJ) Remington Arms Company, Inc, Park Forest, 111. FOR A LARGE SELECTION „OF NEW & USED CHAIN SAWS ... SEE GERMAN BIOS. SALES & SERVICE Phone 445-6272 1 Mi. N of Terre Hill on Rt. 887 East Earl R. D 1 field studies on diet and health in Alaska. Guatemala, Nigeria, Congo and Tanzania, as well as in the U S. cites de-emphasis of homemaking, growth of a generation of convenience food “self-feedcis.” and the influ ence of advertising especially television commercials as reasons for the nutritional in adequacy of diets of many Americans. He also said em phatically that physicians are inadequately trained in nutri tion science. “Nutrition education has been traditionally conducted in the home through the mother daughter transfer of food choices and cooking skills . . . and the family meal transmit ted customs of food selection and meal pattern,” Dr. Mann explained. But in the last 25 years, he points out, the development of prepared and convenience foods has made home preparation of food either unnecessary or rudi mentaiy. A child who can diop a com in a slot, or open a cup boaid door can feed himself, even small children have be come self-feeders Lacking di rection, they make bad choices What influences the children in their selection’ Television ad vertising, for one thing. The dif ficulty is that adveitising is sales-oriented, not health-orient ed, he said. Adults are influenced along with their children. For exam ple: “Fear and repugnance for obesity are used as devices in advertising to promote so-calMd low calorie foods These have had a remarkable increase in use ” 'fa, Written before, but published at the same time as the govern ment clamp-down on use of cy clamates, Dr. Mann’s article stated that the argument that and shape" can be controlled by low"calori'e .foods should be recognized by con sumers as “the promotional scheme fr the highly profitable substitution of cyclamate for sugar.” Diets proposed to restrict cer tain foods, such as reducing in take of animal fat diet as sug gested by the American Heart Association, elicited some stern words from Dr. Mann, who is a Career Investigator of the Na- ttofffif tferfW'toitftiite ImWnu tritlon Division at Vanderbilt. "The diets proposed by the Heart Assocoation are too un palatable to be acceptable and they arc so artificial no human group has ever been found which eats them naturally,” he said. “The promoters chose to ignore large populations who eat more animal fat than we do nary heart disease. Further and yet are untroubled by coro more, the unasturated fat diets advocated have nat been effec tive in proomting health when tested in at least four major ex perimental trials.” What is the solution to good nutritional education of the American people? Dr. Mann lists three: introduce and en large nutrition science in the elementary and secondary school curricula; enforce regula tory control of food advertis ing claims, including those for vitamins, to conform with scientific fact; and enlarge nu trition education among doctors, nurses, dietitians and teachers to make them competent educa tors in this area of health pro motion. Food and Nutrition News is published by the Nutrition Re search Department of the Na tional Live Stock and Meat Board and has a readership of 40,000 physicians, nutritionists, educators and food scientists. New Diseases Livestock pioducers are al ways faced with the pioblem of new diseases being brought to their farm or barn This is a very difficult situation to cor rect when the faims are so close together and so much traffic be tween farms and barns How ever, all owners should be ex tremely careful when going to a public sale, auction, or stock yards and then coming back to his own barn and herd. It is best to wear different shoes or boots to these other places Many dis eases are introduced by the owner himself, if he does not practice good sanitation. Also, stray dogs, cats, and birds could be the carrier of infectious dis eases from farm to farm Clean premises and strict sanitation practices are very important and go with good herd or flock management. 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