International Conference on Nutrition: Development of World Health and Nutrition : Hearing Before the Select Committee on Hunger, House of Representatives, One Hundred Second Congress, Second Session, Hearing Held in Washington, DC, March 11, 1992U.S. Government Printing Office, 1992 - 278 pages |
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Page 208 - The United Nations Conference on Food and Agriculture RECOMMENDS : 1. That the governments and authorities here represented, by virtue of their determination to achieve freedom from want for all people in all...
Page 208 - Direct their attention to the study of health and well-being and of the nutritional and related factors which are necessary to secure and maintain them ; (c) Consider the most effective means of disseminating knowledge of correct feeding among all sections of the population. VI. DEFICIENCY DISEASES WHEREAS: 1. The progressive improvement of diets will result in better health and eventually in the elimination of specific deficiency diseases, and a great deal of unnecessary suffering could be avoided...
Page 204 - Production of food must be greatly expanded; we now have knowledge of the means by which this can be done. It requires imagination and firm will on the part of each government and people to make use of that knowledge. 4. The first cause of hunger and malnutrition is poverty. It is useless to produce more food unless men and nations provide the markets to absorb it. There must be an expansion of the whole world economy to provide the purchasing power sufficient to maintain an adequate diet for all....
Page 207 - That the governments and authorities here represented: — (a) Immediately undertake1 the task of increasing the food resources and improving the diets of their people in accordance with the principles and objectives outlined in the findings of the Conference, and declare to their respective peoples and to other governments and authorities here represented their intention of so doing...
Page 9 - For the two out of three adult Americans who do not smoke and do not drink excessively, one personal choice seems to influence long-term health prospects more than any other: what we eat.
Page 159 - Mr. Chairman, that concludes my testimony. I would be happy to answer any questions you and the members of the subcommittee would have.
Page 207 - Springs in 1943, that the most fundamental of the primary necessities required to promote freedom from disease and for the attainment of good health is adequate food which should be placed within the reach of all men in all lands within the shortest possible time...
Page 211 - Conference has not found it possible to reach conclusions as to the effective capacity of the world to consume specific products in future years; 4. In many countries and regions which are not well adapted to the production of food, the production of other essential agricultural and marine products and their disposal on domestic and foreign markets provide a major source of income, and the income so derived determines to a large extent the abilities of these countries and regions to secure adequate...
Page 204 - May 1943, that while the primary responsibility lies with each nation for seeing that its own people have the food needed for life and health...
Page 204 - The one cannot be achieved without the other. - • 3. -There has never been enough food for the health of all people. This is justified neither by ignorance nor by the harshness of nature.