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

nutritional physiologist Physiology (; ) is the science, scientific study of function (biology), functions and mechanism (biology), mechanisms in a life, living system. As a branches of science, sub-discipline of biology, physiology focuses on how organisms, organ syst ...

. Helsing attended the University of Oslo, and subsequently wrote on and campaigned for natural

breastfeeding Breastfeeding, or nursing, is the process by which human breast milk is fed to a child. Breast milk may be from the breast, or may be expressed by hand or pumped and fed to the infant. The World Health Organization (WHO) recommends that br ...

. She joined the

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in 1984, working at their regional office for Europe on matters related to nutrition, until 1996. She served as president of the 8th European Nutrition Conference; and as president of the Federation of European Nutrition Societies from 1999 to 2003. She was a founder of the Norwegian support group for mothers, , whose first meeting was held in her house in 1968, and which inspired the Swedish equivalent. She is an honorary member of both. She was given the Mediterranean Diet Foundation's first Grande Covian Award in 1996, and received the Norwegian

King's Medal of Merit The King's Medal of Merit (Norwegian: ''Kongens fortjenstmedalje'') is a Norwegian award. It was instituted in 1908 to reward meritorious achievements in the fields of art, science, business, and public service. It is divided in two classes: gold ...

in Gold, for services to the people in 2003. Helsing died on 26 January 2019.

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* 1940 births Place of birth missing Norwegian physiologists Recipients of the King's Medal of Merit in gold Nutritionists 2019 deaths {{Norway-bio-stub