Elisabet Helsing

Dr
Elisabet Helsing
DrMedSci
Born 1940 (age 77–78)
Nationality Norwegian
Occupation Nutritional physiologist


Dr Elisabet Helsing DrMedSci (born 1940) is 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, 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]

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 6 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. 1 2 "Mother Support Task Force (MS TF)". World Alliance for Breastfeeding. Retrieved 30 June 2017.
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