Word: diets
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When all the totals had been footed the experts of the Department of Agriculture emerged to announce: "Nobody will starve." Then they added, "But the country may have to change its diet...
Nobody will starve but many will grumble as these changes in U. S. diet are effected, not by any hard and fast system of food rationing but by the equally potent method of rising food prices. The family that ate ten pork chops at a sitting this year can have them next year but at a higher cost. Last week Secretary Wallace announced that he expected the cost of living to rise about 7%, that food would probably go higher...
...Conference Board calculated a 21.5% rise in food prices from April 1933 to the close of last July. With bigger price rises ahead, consumers might find the prospect gloomy but the Department of Agriculture officially reassured them: "What shortages do exist can be compensated for by shifts in the diet to use more of the foods which are available in abundance. As a whole, these shifts can be accomplished without any severe burden on consumers as to cost, or any material decrease in the nutritional value of the diet...
...calculate how much food the 125,000,000 residents of the U. S. need to keep in normally good health Mr. Doane used a table of per capita food requirements prepared by the Department of Agriculture. In the course of a year this diet would, among other things, provide every citizen with 100 lb. of flour and cereals, 155 lb. of potatoes, 310 qt. of milk, 135 lb. of leafy and other green vegetables, 165 lb. of meat and fish, an egg for breakfast every day. Researcher Doane discovered that with 1929's good crops every citizen could have been...
...feared but they are not our greatest menace. The thing mostly to be feared is a breakdown in natural immunity. Perfect circulation of good blood is our first and greatest defense against disease. The production and circulation of this natural germicide depends upon rational living and correct diet, the necessary sanitary measures and by no means least, a properly adjusted body machine to make the blood and to take it where it is needed...