GLUTTONY A VIRTUE.
GROWING BOYS' NEEDS.
LONDON. January B. Professor V. H. Mottram (Professor ot Physiology in the University of London), in an address to women sanitary inspectors, denied the truth of the com mon assertion that schoolboys are "little pigs." On the contrary, he'said, science showed that gluttony in growing boy was a very healthy sign. They elioni. rat more than their father?, especial It between the ages of 14 and 18 when they were entitled to as much food as a man doing a hard day's work. Girls of between 11 and 13. required more food than boys, the professor added. . . *
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Auckland Star, Volume LVII, Issue 26, 1 February 1926, Page 6
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