The Food Needs of the United Kingdom
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The purpose of this paper is to provide an estimate of the amounts of foods required to meet the needs of calories, protein and calcium of the population of the United Kingdom. The first step was to plan, for representative individuals in the various age and other groups, diets which would conform with British dietary habits unhindered by rationing, and provide a sufficiency of calories, protein and calcium in accordance with the recommendations of the Technical Commission of the League of Nations (Table 4, columns headed R). The general type of representative menu for adults and older children is shown in Table I , and specimen menus for a week, in more detail, in Table 2. Suitable modifications were made for young children. The menus are intended to cover all foods eaten in the home and outside it, in natural or manufactured form. Estimates were then made of the amounts of the foods needed to provide each age group for I week with the diets thus planned (Table 3), then for each of the groups for a year, and, finally, these foods were collected into eight broad categories, and the needs were estimated for the population in the near and distant future compared with that pre-war (Table 5). The estimates are, by their nature, approximate. The pre-war population was taken as that in 1934-8, that for the near future as being the same as at the end of 1946, and for the distant future as being that estimated for 1964t.
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