MODERN IDEAS ON FOOD
HEALTH WITHOUT VITAMINS
London, April 29
Some modern ideas on food were “debunked” by Lord Holder, the famous' physician, at the Industrial Catering Association’s conference. The human body, he said, was very adaptable, and one of the staggering facts that had emerged from recent experiment -was how long a human being could he kept in a state of health without vitamins.
“I think the people conducting the experiment probably saw that the human guinea pjg was remaining in good health for so long that they stopped the experiment because they thought they sould not vitiate all they knew about vitamins,” he said.
A hundred years ago nothing was known about vitamins or calories, but the country people were healthy because they had a balanced diet — bread, milk, a chunk of fat bacon
and more bread, cheese and butter
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Bay of Plenty Times, Volume LXXIV, Issue 14048, 1 May 1946, Page 3
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