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THE science of nutrition expanded so much of recent years that it was no longer adequately covered by existing societies. In July 1941, therefore, a proposal to form a nutrition society was put forward, under the auspices of the heads of various well-known institutes engaged in research on nutrition in Britain, which would follow on the lines of the Physiological and Biochemical Societies, although there was no question of publishing a journal at that time. At the first meeting in the same month, it was felt that the main object of the new Society should be to form a common meeting place for workers in the various fields of nutrition, namely, physiological, biochemical, agricultural, medical, sociological, economic and public health, and that it would be useful during the War to have a separate Scottish Group. The Society had not long been founded when it became apparent that the value of its proceedings would be enhanced by their reaching an audience wider than that which actually participated in its meetings. The Royal College of Physicians, impressed with the advantage which the medical profession might reap from gaining immediate access to the records of the meetings of the Society, made an offer which enabled the financial and other difficulties standing in the way of publication during war-time to be overcome. Accounts of the first meeting and of English and Scottish Group meetings up to May 30, 1942, are now published (Proc. Nutrition Soc., 1, Nos. 1 and 2, 1–112; 1944) and include "Evaluation of Nutritional States; Food Production, Distribution and Supplies in Relation to Human Needs", and "Problems of Collective Feeding in War Time". The second double number will contain reports of meetings on dehydration, food supplies, trace elements and diet in pregnancy and lactation.
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The Nutrition Society. Nature 153, 678 (1944). https://doi.org/10.1038/153678a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/153678a0