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National Symposium on Health Food Held

KCNA

    Pyongyang, October 31 (KCNA) -- The first national symposium on health food was held recently in the Democratic People's Republic of Korea. Presented to the symposium were more than 50 scientific papers on the definition of health food and the prospect of its development and on many kinds of health food the validity of which has been proved in a scientific and technical way.
    Also given in the symposium were lectures on the subjects "On the origin and development of health food", "On the position of health food in public health and prospect of its development", "On the development of function-improving health food and its trend" and on the world trend of health food.
    One of the papers focuses on extensively using medicinal herbs for food.
    Such papers as "Study of the standardization of health food", "Study for introducing selenium into health food", "On the efficacy of dissolved taffy made of potato" and "Study of vital-selen nutriments" were appreciated at the symposium.
    The symposium marked a good occasion for developing health food.