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MR. BOOTHBY, Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Food, has stated in the House of Commons that the Food Rationing (Special Diets) Advisory Committee of the Medical Research Council has advised the Minister of Food that persons suffering from diabetes mellitus should be allowed two extra butter and margarine rations, totalling 12 oz., each week. The necessary arrangements for the issuing of the supplementary rations by food executive officers has been made.
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Extra Fat Allowance for Diabetics. Nature 146, 196 (1940). https://doi.org/10.1038/146196b0
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