Nutrition Policy in Canada, 1870-1939.

Intro -- Contents -- Figures and Tables -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1 Establishing a Food Surveillance System in Canada -- 2 Infant Mortality, Malnutrition, and Social Reform Prior to the First World War -- 3 The Medical Profession and Infant Feeding to the 1920s -- 4 Cow's Milk: A New Image for the 1920s -- 5 The First National Infant Feeding Guidelines in Canada -- 6 Food Safety and Marketing and the Role of the Medical Profession in Dispensing Nutritional Advice in the 1930s -- 7 Food Supply during the Depression -- 8 Mortality from Nutritional Deficiency Diseases during the Depression -- 9 The Canadian Council on Nutrition and the First National Dietary Standard -- Conclusion -- References -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y.

Examines the beginnings and early evolution of nutrition policy developments in Canada from the late nineteenth century to the beginning of the Second World War.

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