A personal view of teaching nutrition

Abstract

In 1975 the Winston Churchill Memorial Trust offered travelling Fellowships in twelve different categories including one for ‘Women in Social and Public Service’. This was a new category and attracted over 500 applicants. Out of that number, thirteen women were able to convince the selectors of the worth of their proposed project and I was fortunate in being awarded a Fellowship to study ‘The Teaching of Family Nutrition and Weight Control in Canada and the USA’. Last September I left England for almost three months and in that time crossed Canada from east to west, visiting Government Health Departments, hospitals, public health programmes, clinics and schools. This part of the trip was almost entirely concerned with the teaching of family nutrition in all its aspects, and the remaining time which I spent in the United States was involved with methods of dealing with the problems of weight control in a population at risk from cardiovascular disease.

Citation

Scott, J. (1976), "A personal view of teaching nutrition", Nutrition & Food Science, Vol. 76 No. 3, pp. 5-7. https://doi.org/10.1108/eb058654