"A Daily Food Guide"
Reference work
By: Mary M. Hill
Date: 1965
Source: Hill, Mary M. "A Daily Food Guide." In Consumers All: The Yearbook of Agriculture, 1965. Washington, D.C: Government Printing Office, 1965, 742–743.
About the Author: Mary M. Hill joined the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology at the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Agricultural Research Service in 1960. She specialized in child nutrition and eventually became director of the Children's Nutrition Research Center at the U.S. Department of Agriculture.
Introduction
The federal government has a long history of trying to educate Americans about proper nutrition. Its first reports and pamphlets on the subject appeared around the beginning of the twentieth century, at a time when nutrition as a science was in its infancy. These reports became more detailed and accurate as scientists developed a better...[The entire page is 2538 words long]
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