Excerpt from What Is Malnutrition?

As the work has progressed the emphasis has been shifting more and more from the mere remedial aspects to the preventive ones. Instead of being limited entirely to classes for the most underweight children - as it was in the beginning - the work is rapidly developing mto an all-round health-education program for every school child. In many schools all children - not merely the underweight ones - are weighed at least monthly, and medical examinations are given to as many as possible. Instruction concerning diet, sleep, exercise, and other matters of hygiene is given in all grades, and the work is correlated with the regular school subjects and activities (31 Teachers now put emphasis on the practice of healthy living instead of following the old method of formal instruction without any appli cation to the children's own lives.

In some schools, in addition to the regular health-education pro gram, special classes are still conducted for the most undernourished children. In others, additional attention is given to such children by special measures - such as extra rest periods or relief from some of the school strains. In most schools nutrition work no longer stands out as a separate unit, but it has been incorporated into the health-education program and the whole fabric of school life. Not all schools, by any means, have as yet any type of nutrition or health education work, but the opinion of leaders appears to be that the study of nutrition is gradually becoming a part of the regular health education program in schools.

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