ABSTRACT
As we saw in Chapter 5, in the early part of the twentieth century, the family was the focus of nutrition intervention mainly through discourses on childhood via child health surveillance in the welfare clinic and in the school. This greatly expanded the focus of nutrition so that all family members were subject to its invitations and incitements to more closely inspect the food they ate. With the recognition that post-war food choices were still mostly made in the context of the household, and that most food was consumed in the home (Taylor, 1992), nutrition discourses in Australia focused the supply and demand of food within the domestic setting.
