1941 - Nutrition

Nutrition

Europeans in German-occupied countries are advised to eat vegetables raw or with as little cooking as possible in order to retain as many of their nutrients as possible, and to eat potatoes unpeeled in order to preserve their vitamin content. Few housewives follow these directions.

A National Nutritional Conference for Defense convened by President Roosevelt examines causes for the physical defects found in so many young men called up by the draft. Cincinnati-born Mayo Clinic nutrition and diabetes expert Russell M. (Morse) Wilder, 55, heads a group of experts in a study of the eating habits of 2,000 representative U.S. families (see 1943).

Only 30 percent of U.S. white bread is enriched with vitamins and iron. South Carolina becomes the first state to require enrichment.

The average fat content of U.S. frankfurters is 19 percent, up from 18 in 1935 (see 1969).