CHILDREN’S WEIGHTS
Sir, —To gauge children’s progress toward health by the scales, as if they were beef and mutton for slaughter, is to assume that “stuffing” is good. Under war-time privations, the health of the people of England has rarely been better. So in Denmark during the first World War. Some here, by experiment, have found that to reduce our food intake to the body’s actual need is a “fast way to health.” Research has shown three types of people with fundamentally different needs: the slender intellectual, the muscular bony, the stout. Average figures over all these do not fit any type. Tables of weights and increments for given heights and ages mislead badly Moreover, health and efficiency are associated rather with spareness of build. Fitness depends on quality of body tissue and of food, not on quantity.— Yours, etc., _ WEE MACGREGOR. December 16, 1946.
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Press, Volume LXXXII, Issue 25061, 18 December 1946, Page 8
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