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ACCORDING to an annotation in the September issue of the Boletin de la Oficina Sanitaria Panamericana, the newly organized Institute of Nutrition in Mexico includes the following sections: bromatology, economic, social and dietetic departments, clinical medicine and a clinical laboratory, and maternal and child welfare. In the near future, the bromatology section will undertake studies of the chemical composition of legumes and maize, and the economic section will undertake an investigation of the state of nutrition of about seven hundred families in an area of Mexico City. The clinical laboratory will determine the vitamin content and blood count of the families studied. The maternal and child welfare division has already started work on the vitamin content of the blood of pregnant women at different periods of pregnancy, and a training centre has made plans for courses for the selection of dietitians and experts in nutrition.
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Mexican Institute of Nutrition. Nature 154, 113 (1944). https://doi.org/10.1038/154113b0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/154113b0