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THE importance of the food supply in the preservation of normal health and well-being is generally recognised among scientific observers, but the necessity for a scientific selection of the food, in addition to that due to the dictates of appetite, is not always realised by many classes of the population. Dietary surveys, carefully performed, will indicate the adequacy, both quantitative and qualitative, of popular diets, in terms of accepted standards; when estimates of the cost of the diets are also made, data are available as to the minimum cost of an adequate food supply under different conditions. At the same time, encouragement may be given to education on the planning of adequate diets at minimum expense, especially if the surveys indicate that many dietaries are not only inadequate but also expensive.
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The Adequacy of Human Dietaries. Nature 126, 963–964 (1930). https://doi.org/10.1038/126963a0
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