Primer congreso sobre la nutrición de los estratos pobres de la población: Hacia una historia de la alimentación y nutrición en Chile (1931)

Abstract

This article studies the First Congress on the nutrition of the poorer strata of the population developed in the City of Valparaiso (Chile) in 1931. It is approached in the context of a conference, the role played by the first generation of doctors concerned about the problem of nutrition and the main conclusions of meeting. We note that the First Congress is the beginning of a nutrition policy to the poorer strata of the population that will be accompanied with the creation of the National Council of Food in 1937.