Reconfiguring food standards and surveys in France: The nutrition service of the National Institute of Hygiene
Depecker, Thomas
Reconfiguring food standards and surveys in France: The nutrition service of the National Institute of Hygiene - 2016.
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This article examines nutrition surveys and the reconfiguration of food standards in France during World War II. Physiologists and doctors came together in several commissions to monitor the food consumption of the French population and the evolution of the state of nutrition, and to solve the problems caused by restrictions. The Institut de Recherche d’Hygiène (Institute for Hygiene Research) was set up in Marseille by the Rockefeller Foundation to implement measures to conduct nutrition surveys. They introduced an innovation in French research into nutrition, comparing the nutritional composition of people’s diets with the state of their health in the same way as earlier research had compared food consumption with physical activity. In so doing, they introduced a third term into traditional nutritional assessments. The results of these surveys caused controversy about the nature of nutritional standards, especially the assessment of the rations consumed by population groups. The article examines the impact of the techniques imported by the Rockefeller Foundation and their application during the war on the reconfiguration of research into nutrition and nutritional standards.
Reconfiguring food standards and surveys in France: The nutrition service of the National Institute of Hygiene - 2016.
75
This article examines nutrition surveys and the reconfiguration of food standards in France during World War II. Physiologists and doctors came together in several commissions to monitor the food consumption of the French population and the evolution of the state of nutrition, and to solve the problems caused by restrictions. The Institut de Recherche d’Hygiène (Institute for Hygiene Research) was set up in Marseille by the Rockefeller Foundation to implement measures to conduct nutrition surveys. They introduced an innovation in French research into nutrition, comparing the nutritional composition of people’s diets with the state of their health in the same way as earlier research had compared food consumption with physical activity. In so doing, they introduced a third term into traditional nutritional assessments. The results of these surveys caused controversy about the nature of nutritional standards, especially the assessment of the rations consumed by population groups. The article examines the impact of the techniques imported by the Rockefeller Foundation and their application during the war on the reconfiguration of research into nutrition and nutritional standards.
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