Farming, Saturday, December'6,' 1969
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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
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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 ”
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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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