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NEW scientific society devoted to the study of nutrition, the Nutrition Society, has just come into existence (see NATURE of October 11, p. 433), and an account of its first meeting appears on p. 519 of this issue. Nutritional thought in Great Britain has so far centred around the Biochemical and Physiological Societies, and, in recent years the Nutrition Panel of the Society of Chemical Industry has done much to foster interest in food problems. Admirable as these facilities were, they could not keep pace with the increasing scope of nutritional science which now also embraces agriculture, clinical study, practical dietetics and sociological problems. The new Society, while in no sense competing with existing ones, will provide a common meeting–ground where all aspects of nutrition can be discussed by workers previously separated by the barriers of specialization.
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THE NUTRITION SOCIETY. Nature 148, 513–514 (1941). https://doi.org/10.1038/148513a0
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