World Health Organization : Technical Report Series, No. 377: Joint FAO/World Health Organization Expert Committee on Nutrition

By World Health Organization

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Title:	World Health Organization : Technical Report Series, No. 377: Joint FAO/World Health Organization Expert Committee on Nutrition
Author:	World Health Organization
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Language:	English
Subject:	Health., Public health, Wellness programs
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Publisher:	World Health Organization


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Excerpt
INTRODUCTION The Joint FAO/WHO Expert Committee on Nutrition1 met in Rome from 12 to 20 December 1966. The session was opened by Dr. Oris V. Wells, Deputy Director-General of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Prof. V. Ramalingaswami wasunanimously elected Chairman and Prof. M. J. L. Dols Vice-Chairman. The Committee was assisted in its consideration of particular problems by three FAO and three WHO consultants. A representative of the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) attended the session. The Committee reviewed the programs of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations and of the World Health Organization before turning its attention to the general food and nutrition situation in the world and to other subjects on the agenda. The Committee stressed the urgency of the general food and nutrition position and outlook in the world. It recognized that people can be healthy only if well fed and was concerned for the prevailing poor nutritional health and future outlook. The rate of increase in population varies from 1.5 to 3.5 percent per year in most regions. The highest rate of increase occurs in those countries with the lowest per caput food production and income. According to the 1963 FAO Third world food survey . . . should the population grow according to the United Nations 'medium' projection, the world's total food supply would have to be trebled by the year 2000 in order to provide a reasonably adequate level of nutrition. For the less developed areas total food supplies would need

Table of Contents
CONTENTS Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Indicative World Plan for Agricultural Development . . . Nutritional requirements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Food consumption . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Food composition . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Medical assessment of nutritional status . . . . . . . . . Nutrition in adolescence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Nutrition in pregnancy and lactation . . . . . . . . . . Nutrition and infection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Nutritional anemias . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Vitamin A deficiency . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Rickets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Endemic goiter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Nutrition and mental development . . . . . . . . . . . . Nutrition and noninfectious diseases . . . . . . . . . . . Nutrition in food science and technology . . . . . . . . I6 . Food additives and food standards . . . . . . 17 . Food additives in infant foods . . . . . . . . 18 . Mycotoxins iil foods . . . . . . . . . . . . .