DRINK MORE MILK

Auckland Star, Volume LXIV, Issue 261, 4 November 1933, Page 7

DRINK MORE MILK

DIET IN NEW ZEALAND HOME SCIENTIST'S ADVICE. TEETH WORST IN THE WJORLD. (By Telegraph.—Own Correspondent.) " DUNEDIN, this day. Miss K. Landreth, M.A., M.Sc, a graduate of Otago University College, back from studying home science and home economies in' America, in an address to dairymen on the value of milk as food, said milk was one of the most important factors contributing to health and normal teeth and bone development. I

Miss Landreth did not wish to, injure New Zealand's dental reputation, but teeth in this country were probably the worst in the world. The average consumption of milk per person in New Zealand was about half a pint a day, which was a long way indeed from the American standard of a quart a day for a child.

When it was considered that New Zealand was a dairying country with the income of a great section of its people depending on the sale of dairy products, it seemed little short of pathetic that children should be starving for diet which was so essential. Children, were drinking tea when they shquld be drinking milk.

f'l believe a good deal is being done in the matter of marketing New Zealand dairy produce," added the speaker, "but I cannot help feeling that a wonderful opportunity is being neglected in ignoring the Home market. If this were .looked to it would be a blessing to New Zealand teeth.