W. H. SEBRELL 



is one factor which it will be our opportunity to continue to make 

 available now that the war is over — the participation of scientists in the 

 task of improving the nutrition of people. They must play a larger 

 role than in the past in applying the results of their work. Research 

 work in nutrition has, in recent years, achieved an enviable record. 

 It will earn the gratitude of mankind if a greater effort is made to give 

 human beings the benefits of its results. The nutrition scientist can 

 play an even more important part in the future than he has in the 

 past if he will, on occasion, come out of his laboratory and mingle with 

 the people in the market place. He will go back to his essential work 

 refreshed by a greater appreciation of the way in which his results 

 contribute to the improvement of human welfare and by his contact 

 with the every-day problems of life. 



References 



(1) Gavin, J. P., Stiebeling, H. K., and Farioletti, M., "Agricultural Sur- 

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 a Changing World. U. S. Dept. Agr., Washington, 1940. 



(2) Food Consumption Levels in the United States, Canada, and the United King- 

 dom. Report of Joint Committee of the Combined Food Board, U. S. 

 Dept. Agr., April, 1944. 



(3) Goodhart, R., "Protecting the Health of the Industrial Worker: Nutri- 

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 1945. 



(4) "Recommended Dietary Allowances," Natl. Research Council Reprint Circ. 

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(5) Stiebeling, H. K., "Adequacy of American Diets," in Handbook of Nutrition. 

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