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Meanwhile, the mobile teams get down to business. Each traveling unit includes a doctor, a dentist or hygienist and, if possible, a nutritionist, all of whom pay their own expenses. Some medical services, such as eye and dental examinations, tests for high blood pressure and other common medical problems, are available. The emphasis is on prevention rather than treatment. "We do not treat people here," explains the Rev. Judith Cook, a Presbyterian minister and registered nurse who heads the Appalachian program. "We want people to know what health care is all about, what it has to offer...
...choose such a partisan nutritionist as Dr. Winick to cover the International Health Fair [Oct. 23]. Though he renders a service in exposing the faddism and snake-oil huckstering in the movement, he overlooks what will be its lasting effect: turning Americans away from the plastic "long shelf life" foods of the supermarkets back to the plain, flavorsome-and more healthful-foods of the real world...
Mary Crumlin, nutritionist for the UHS, said she believes that part of the increased interest in nutrition is due to a larger number of people following macrobiotic diets, as well as a growing concern about obesity as a health problem...
Died. Lord John Boyd Orr, 90, Nobel-prizewinning nutritionist; near Edzell, Scotland. A pipe-smoking Scotsman who advocated the creation of a "global granary" to feed the world's hungry, Lord Boyd Orr was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1949 after battling hunger as the first director-general of the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization...
Since 1968, when he served as chairman of the National Council on Hunger and Malnutrition, scientist Mayer has become the spokesman for nutritionist muckrackers in the United States. Asked by Nixon to organize the first White House Conference on Food, Nutrition, and Health, Mayer tried to emphasize that Americans, especially old people and single women with small children in both the North and the South, still starve. "More than ten per cent of our total population," he said. At the Conference Mayer pointed out that the very poor in rural areas were not on welfare. He named 500 counties...