NEM system

The NEM system (from N ahrungs- E inheit- M ilch) was a simple method introduced by the Austrian doctor Clemens von Pirquet to calculate the nutritional value of food rations intended for children in the Republic of Austria shortly after the First World War .

In 1919, an extreme shortage of food forced the distributors of the food supplied by foreign aid organizations to distribute it only to children in need. If a test carried out according to the Pelidisi formula showed the need for a rich diet, the food allocations were carried out on a “Nem” basis, which greatly simplified the process. One food supplement was the amount of any food that had the same nutritional value as one gram of average breast milk with 667 kcal / l. One kilonem thus corresponded to a meal with a nutritional value equivalent to that of a liter of milk.

proof

Frank M. Surface / Raymond L. Bland: American Food in the World War and Reconstruction Period. Operations of the Organizations Under the Direction of Herbert Hoover 1914 to 1924. Stanford University Press, Stanford 1931, p. 158

literature

Clemens von Pirquet: An Outline of the Pirquet System of Nutrition . WB Saunders Company, Philadelphia 1922

Individual evidence

↑ H. Birkner, K. Freisteiner, G. Hansekowitz, P. Panzer: Children's kitchen. A cookbook based on the Nemsystem . Edmund Nobel, Clemens von Pirquet . Springer , Vienna 1927, ISBN 978-3-7091-3052-0 , p. 22 , doi : 10.1007 / 978-3-7091-3052-0 .

[1] H. Birkner, K. Freisteiner, G. Hansekowitz, P. Panzer: Children's kitchen. A cookbook based on the Nemsystem . Edmund Nobel, Clemens von Pirquet . Springer , Vienna 1927, ISBN 978-3-7091-3052-0 , p. 22 , doi : 10.1007 / 978-3-7091-3052-0 .