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MANY diseases, ranging from different types of poisoning to deficiency diseases, are caused by defects or impurities in the food supply of a population: at times they may even occur in epidemics. Cure may be brought about by changing the food supply or by adding a missing factor to the diet; in other cases, only medical treatment is of value. Prevention, as always, is better than cure. With an adequate dietary of pure foods, most of these diseases can be abolished or their incidence greatly reduced. A review of the disorders associated with the ingestion of food, which was given by Mr. S. Dixon, the public analyst of the City of Cardiff, to a joint meeting of the South Wales Section of the Institute of Chemistry and the local section of the Society of Chemical Industry, at Cardiff, in February 1932, has now been issued as a small brochure and provides a useful and interesting summary of our knowledge of the subject.
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Relation of Food to Disease*. Nature 131, 333 (1933). https://doi.org/10.1038/131333a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/131333a0