AN APPLE A DAY HELPS TO KEEP THE DOCTOR AWAY

Abstract

Many committees have commented on the role of diet and health, but in the last 15 years there has been an upsurge of these publications. One of the first reports in 1974 from the committee on Medical Aspects of Food Policy (COMA) made very little reference to fruits and vegetables and did not have any specific recommendations to increase their consumption. Yet the World Health Organisation Expert Committee in 1982 published a report Prevention of CHD that recommended increasing ‘appropriately combined foods of plant origin’. The discussion paper Proposals for Nutritional Guidelines for Health Education in Britain' prepared by a working party of the National Advisory Committee of Nutrition Education (NACNE) stated, ‘… health educators should encourage the consumption of fruits and vegetables as well as cereals …’

Citation

(1987), "AN APPLE A DAY HELPS TO KEEP THE DOCTOR AWAY", Nutrition & Food Science, Vol. 87 No. 6, pp. 2-3. https://doi.org/10.1108/eb059453