A National Nutrition Policy: Can we Devise One?

The reasons for the success of the British food and nutritional policy of the second world war are discussed. Subsequent trends in Britain and elsewhere towards the affluent pattern of diet are described and the current views about diet and heart disease and diet and cancer are summarised. Conclusions are drawn about the need for public education on the modification of diet towards a more prudent pattern. The terms food policy and nutritional policy are distinguished.