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
- Date
- 1943
- Period
- Second World War
- Made by
- U.S. Department of Agriculture, War Food Administration
- Region
- North America
- Country
- United States
- Medium
- Poster
- Issuer type
- State
- Regime
- Roosevelt Administration
- Leader
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
- Audience
- Domestic public
- Purpose
- Mobilize or secure compliance
- Themes
- Home front, Health
- Event
- World War II
- Regime
- Roosevelt administration
- Leader
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
- Source
- Identified Openly sourced: the speaker is who they say they are
- Source
- U.S. National Archives and Records Administration, Record Group 44, World War II Posters, retrieved October 4, 2026
- Rights
- Public domain (U.S. government work)
U.S. Department of Agriculture, War Food Administration. National Archives and Records Administration, RG 44, 44-PA-908 (NAID 514413).
Text on the object
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
