GIRLS' DIET.

Auckland Star, Volume LXVIII, Issue 299, 17 December 1937, Page 8

GIRLS' DIET.

PLEA FOR CO-OPERATION. PHYSICAL WELL-BEING. want to ask parents very earnestly for their co-operation in the observance by the girls of a few simple health rules that have been drawn up for their guidance," said Miss E. M. Johnston, headmistress of the Auckland Girls' Grammar School, in her annual report at the prize-giving ceremony to-day. "A correct and satisfying diet, for instance, is almost entirely a matter for the home, though the provision which has been made this term of free millc for third form girls and for aome others is a great help in this direction. "If*it be thought by some that undue emphasis is being placed on diet in its relation to health," Miss Johnston continued, "I would quote in my support of this emphasis from a recent review in the 'New York Times,' where the writer, speaking of the Final Report of the Mixed Committee of the League of Nations on the 'Relation of Nutrition to Health, Agriculture and Economic Policy,' says: 'If the test is elemental human interest, and bearing on the basic problems of our times, by all odds the most important book of the year is the 330-page report bn nutrition just published after years of research by the Mixed Committee of the League of Nations.' "

MiHs Johnston concluded her remarks on this subject by stating that the relation of nutrition to health is so important that there would be ample scope in New Zealand for the work of a national committee if ench a committee Department. 0 " P * HeaUh