Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Preface V
3. Contents IX
4. The Nutritional Improvement of Life 1
5. CHAPTER I. Introductory: Nutrition as Public Concern and as Individual Adventure 3
6. CHAPTER II .Nutrition in the Nineties: Beginnings of Permanently Organized Research in Nutrition 10
7. CHAPTER III. First Decade of the Twentieth Century Science of Nutrition 17
8. CHAPTER IV. Nutrition in the Decade of 1911-1920 34
9. CHAPTER V. Advances during 1921-1930 and the Concept of Nutritional Improvement 58
10. CHAPTER VI .Nutrition in the Decade of 1931-1940 81
11. CHAPTER VII. In the Second World War 106
12. CHAPTER VIII. Principles and Practice 124
13. CHAPTER IX .The Internal Environment and the Quality of Life 146
14. CHAPTER X .Improved Nutrition and Length of Life 164
15. CHAPTER XI .Further Human Implications 190
16. CHAPTER XII. Better Nutritional Status for More People 205
17. APPENDIX A. The 1946 World Food Survey of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations 223
18. APPENDIX B. Records of Actual Food Consumption 227
19. APPENDIX C. Selected Bibliography 232
20. Index 255