Nutrition Society 75th Anniversary

EDM number 751 in 2016-17, proposed by Stephen Metcalfe on 30/11/2016.
Categorised under the topics of Food and Science.

That this House congratulates the Nutrition Society and commemorates the 75th anniversary of its formation in 1941; recalls that by 1930 nutrition was fully recognised as a science in its own right although at the time no formal learned society existed for the sharing and development of the science; notes that a government Advisory Committee on Nutrition was set up in 1935, together with a Market Supply Committee; further notes that by 1939 the nutritional state of the nation was of immediate concern and that the urgency of war galvanised various interested people into action; records that informal meetings began in 1940 to bring together people studying different aspects of the same problem in medical research; recognises that the assessment of the nutritional value of human foods, and those engaged in the production and analysis of animal feeding stuffs, was beneficial to the nation; notes that a preliminary meeting at the Athenaeum Club in London on 11 June 1941 was followed by a conference at the Royal Institution in London on 23 July 1941, attended by 28 eminent people from the field of nutrition, at which the Nutrition Society was formed; applauds the Society's object to advance the scientific study of nutrition and its application to the maintenance of human and animal health; and notes that the Nutrition Society now has 2,500 members globally and is the largest such learned society in the world for the science of nutrition.

This motion has been signed by a total of 12 MPs.