Elsie Widdowson, dietician in the Second World War

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Elsie May Widdowson pioneered important research into human and animal diets that led to the introduction of a UK healthy rationing system in WWII, alongside the compulsory addition of calcium to bread-making flour. Her research helped the readjustment of post-concentration camp starvation victims and war-torn communities, and has left a lasting legacy that continues to this day.