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THE Ministry of Food, in collaboration with the Ministry of Health, has prepared a twelve-page pamphlet of diets for patients with ulcers of the stomach and duodenum. This pamphlet, which is not intended for the general public, since the dieting of cases of the above type is a matter for expert supervision, is approved by the Food Rationing (Special Diets) Advisory Committee of the Medical Research Council and will, it is hoped, help general practitioners, and others professionally concerned with the feeding of such patients, to cope with difficulties of war-time food supplies. The pamphlet contains rules for feeding and planning diets, weekly menus and recipes for patients who have either recovered from the acute stage of peptic ulcer or from whom symptoms due to the ulcer have almost disappeared. In planning the menus, the aim has been to provide a reasonably varied diet based on the foods available under present conditions to these patients. Copies of the pamphlet may be obtained by those professionally concerned with the problem, on application to the Secretary (Public Relations Division), Ministry of Health, Whitehall, S.W.1.
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Diets for Patients with Ulcers of the Stomach and Duodenum. Nature 154, 78 (1944). https://doi.org/10.1038/154078b0
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