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title: 'Good food means good work: Eat the basic 7 every day!'
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/good-food-means-good-work-1943/
description: 'Nutrition poster: very large white headline type on red and blue fields, with a round emblem of a smiling father, mother.'
section: Collection
---

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[![Good food means good work: Eat the basic 7 every day!, 1943 US poster: Nutrition poster](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/good-food-means-good-work-1943.jpg)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/good-food-means-good-work-1943.jpg)

# Good food means good work: Eat the basic 7 every day!

Nutrition poster: very large white headline type on red and blue fields, with a round emblem of a smiling father, mother, girl and boy walking arm in arm under the words 'U.S. Needs Us Strong'. The slogan ties eating a set diet to wartime work, and the family emblem presents ordinary households as the model.

## Propaganda techniques used in this poster

[Glittering generalities](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/glittering-generalities/) [Plain folks](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/plain-folks/)

## Text on the object

Original (English) · read from the image, not independently checked

```
Good Food
means
Good Work
U.S. NEEDS US STRONG
EAT THE BASIC 7 EVERY DAY
Eat the basic 7
EVERY DAY!
U. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE—WAR FOOD ADMINISTRATION
9
[imprint:] U.S. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE : 1943—O—544267
```

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