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International Journal of Epidemiology 2003;32:493-495
© International Epidemiological Association 2003

Reprints and Reflections

Malnutrition in England*

J Pemberton

The first 150 words of the full text of this article appear below.

It is the aim of this article to show that a large section of the community at the present time is not able to buy the amount of food necessary for maintaining health and activity.

The truth of this statement has been brought home to me after comparing the report of the British Medical Association1 on adequate diets with the present rates of unemployment benefit. It is impossible for the unemployed man and his family to purchase the diets recommended by the BMA, which, it should be noted, are minimum, not optimum, diets.

To determine whether a person is in a state of undernourishment or not, it is necessary to know his daily calorific requirements and whether the amount of food he ingests each day is sufficient to supply that value. Obviously the former is not a constant for every man, but varies with the man’s weight, the nature of . . . [Full Text of this Article]


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