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IN the Cantor Lectures for 1936 before the Royal Society of Arts, Sir Robert McCarrison presented a strong case for the fuller recognition of the importance of nutrition in determining the health and efficiency of human beings, as it has long been recognised in the case of domestic animals. Observations on the. dietary habits of different races of men in India have convinced him that the kind of food habitually eaten is responsible not only for striking differences in physique, vitality and endurance, but also for equally striking differences in their susceptibility to diseases of various kinds. His numerous experiments in the laboratory have amply confirmed the field observations and have demonstrated the poor physique and increased liability to disease of animals reared on faulty diets similar in composition to those consumed by large sections of the populations both of India and of Western countries.
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Nutrition and National Health. Nature 137, 545 (1936). https://doi.org/10.1038/137545a0
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