Elisabet Helsing

Dr
Elisabet Helsing
DrMedSci
Born3 June 1940
Died26 January 2019(2019-01-26) (aged 78)
NationalityNorwegian
OccupationNutritional physiologist

Dr Elisabet Helsing DrMedSci (3 June 1940 – 26 January 2019) was a Norwegian nutritional physiologist.

Helsing attended the University of Oslo, and subsequently wrote on and campaigned for natural breastfeeding.[1]

She joined the World Health Organization in 1984, working at their regional office for Europe on matters related to nutrition, until 1996.[1]

She served as president of the 8th European Nutrition Conference; and as president of the Federation of European Nutrition Societies from 1999 to 2003.[1]

She was a founder of the Norwegian support group for mothers, Ammehjelepen [Wikidata], whose first meeting was held in her house in 1968, and which inspired the Swedish equivalent.[1][2] She is an honorary member of both.[1][2]

She was given the Mediterranean Diet Foundation's first Grande Covian Award in 1996, and received the Norwegian King's Medal of Merit in Gold, for services to the people in 2003.[1]

Helsing died on 26 January 2019.[3]

References

  1. ^ a b c d e f Stefania Crowther; Lois Reynolds; Tilli Tansey, eds. (2009). The Resurgence of Breastfeeding, 1975-2000. Wellcome Witnesses to Contemporary Medicine. London: History of Modern Biomedicine Research Group. ISBN 978-0-85484-119-6. Wikidata Q29581763.
  2. ^ a b "Mother Support Task Force (MS TF)". World Alliance for Breastfeeding. Retrieved 30 June 2017.
  3. ^ Savage, Felicity. "Honouring the Life of Dr. Elisabet Helsing (pdf)" (PDF). World Alliance for Breastfeeding Action. Retrieved 1 May 2019.


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