Diet and Health

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RISING LEVELS of health have been a prominent feature of the American scene over many decades.Declining mortality, in¬ creased longevity, lower infant and maternal mortality rates, total eradication of some in¬ fectious diseases such as yellow fever, malaria, and smallpox, and effective control of others such as pneumonia, influenza, tuberculosis, and poliomyelitis are concrete manifestations of progress.Many factors have accounted for this.bettermedical care, better sanitation, improved meth¬ ods of disease prevention, rising levels of edu¬ cation and income, better diets, and improved levels of nutrition.Nutritional deficiency dis¬ eases such as pellagra and scurvy have virtually disappeared.Children are growing more rapidly than ever before.Adults are taller and heavier.True, we still have "pockets of malnutrition" in certain socioeconomic groups.Undoubtedly diets could be further improved for some seg¬ ments of the population.However, malnutri¬ tion still persisting is due largely

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