Ideas for Slimming Advice
BIRTH OF THE NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE | How the state of the nation's health became a political ideal
Ideas for Slimming Advice
The BBC considers publishing diet sheets.
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Synopsis
These notes about whether or not the BBC should publish diet sheets for slimming advice show how much ideas about obesity have changed since 1951. Whereas now it is regarded as a matter of governmental concern, then it was felt by the BMA to be only a question of 'cosmetics' that doctors should consider to be outside the remit of the NHS.
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Dr Henry Dale was a Nobel Prize-winning physiologist and pharmacologist who discovered histamine and set up international standards for hormones, vitamins and various other drugs.
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