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Diet and Health: Striking a Balance

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A Balanced Diet?

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It has recently been suggested [1] that the term “a balanced diet” is outdated, having served its purpose in contributing to the eradication of deficiency diseases, and should be replaced by another which embodies a more explicit reference to the role of diet in the development of the chronic degenerative diseases that afflict all industrialised countries, and the affluent subgroups in Third World populations. Terms such as “the prudent diet” and “the healthful diet” have gained some ground in the United States, but they in turn would have to be explained.

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    John Dobbing DSc, FRCP, FRCPath (Emeritus Professor of Child Growth and Development) (Emeritus Professor of Child Growth and Development)

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Naismith, D.J. (1988). Diet and Health: Striking a Balance. In: Dobbing, J. (eds) A Balanced Diet?. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4471-1652-3_1

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