Israel is being used as a testing area for a new type of study inaugurated by the United Nations Children’s Fund, in an effort to find out whether there is a relationship between improved dieting and a lessening of infant mortality.
UNICEF announced here today that a survey of this type, the first ever undertaken, is being conducted in Israel now with the cooperation of the Government of Israel. Girl students, seniors in the College of Nutrition and Home Economics, at Jerusalem, are interviewing 800 families in 40 Israeli villages where the residents are recently-arrived immigrants.
From these interviews, and other studies, a scientific survey will be made of the effect of dieting and other environmental factors on infant mortality, especially among peoples whose diets had been previously inadequate.
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