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11 Chinese Soc. & Pol. Sci. Rev. 56 (1927)
Chinese Diet in the Light of Modern Knowledge of Nutrition

handle is hein.journals/chinsoc11 and id is 74 raw text is: Chinese Diet in the Light of Modern Knowledge of Nutrition' By Hsien Wu (41), Ph. D. Thousands of years ago the ancients of China declared the three necessities of life to be clothing, food and shelter. Of these three food is by far the most important. While shelter and clothing modify only our external environment, food enters into intimate relation with the physiological processes of the body. Ordinary prudence suffices to judge the adequacy of shelter and clothing, but neither instinct nor common sense is a reliable guide in the choice of food. To a large extent the diet of a people is determined by what the land produces and this, in turn, is dependent on the character of the soil and the climatic conditions. In ancient times when the population was small, and economic pressure non-existent, people produced within certain limits what they liked from the land. They could, for instance, choose between.a rice field and a vegetable garden or between a fruit orchard and a pasture for grazing animals. With the tremendous increase in population and economic 1 Based on a paper presented at the Conference of the China Med- ical Association, August 31st to September 8th, 1926, and on a lecture at the Peking Unio.i Medical College delivered on Oct- ober 8, 1926. 56

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