Food and Nutrition
Food and Nutrition
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DOI：
10.5694/j.1326-5377.1947.tb67541.x
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发表时间：
1938-10
影响因子：
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通讯作者：
Jean Drèze;Pierre Mac Orlan
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作者：
Jean Drèze;Pierre Mac Orlan
根据艺术家和作家皮埃尔·麦克·奥兰的说法，“人类首先是一个胃”。这一说法是基于麦克·奥兰童年时在法国的饥饿经历，但在印度的背景下并不难证实这一点。民歌、历史记录、直接观察、消费者支出调查和许多其他来源都表明了食物在印度文化中的吸纳作用。然而，这种普遍的担忧与公共政策中对营养问题的异常忽视是齐头并进的，尽管印度的政治机构具有民主性质。即使是基本的事实也很难理解。
According to Pierre Mac Orlan, artist and writer, “humanity is first and foremost a stomach”. The statement is based on Mac Orlan’s personal experience of hunger during his childhood in France, but it would not be difficult to substantiate it in the Indian context. Folk songs, historical records, direct observation, consumer expenditure surveys and a host of other sources point to the absorbing role of food in Indian culture. This popular concern, however, goes hand in hand with an extraordinary neglect of nutrition issues in public policy, in spite of the democratic nature of India’s political institutions. Even the basic facts are poorly understood.