MILK AT THE POLE.

Auckland Star, Volume LVI, Issue 184, 6 August 1925, Page 13

MILK AT THE POLE.

UNSOLICITED TESTIMONIALS.

DRINK MORE MDLX. (From Our Own Correspondent.) LONDON, July 1. We hand on this to the dairy industry of New Zealand as the raw material of a good publicity feature. Professor Henry Kenwood, an Emeritus professor of hygiene in London University, lias been writing to the Press and this is what he says:— "Captain Amundsen, in a graphic account of his recent effort to reach the North Pole, reveals the fact that he provisioned his party with extensive supplies of milk, in one form or another. The Scandinavian athletes consumed milk largely, in their training for Olympic Games, in which they gained such notable success. Dempsey is a convinced milk-consumer. Weismuller, the champion swimmer of the world, and Stagg, the Chicago University coach, are also advocates of a milk diet. "Amongst our own athletes, Abrahams is the only one who' attests to the value of milk in training.' Might not Great Britain number more champions amongst her devotees to sport if the value of milk in building up nervous energy and muscular energy were more generally realised, and is it not well to combat the belief so prevalent in this country that milk has a real food value for infants and invalids, only by pom ting out that.it has a proven value to men who are to undergo a supreme test of •trcngth and endurance?"