One in the eye for Popeye
NZPA Paris A scatty secretary at the end of the nineteenth century was responsible for the cartoon character Popeye being cruelly misled into believing that big doses of spinach would make him strong, according to a report in a French medical magazine. Dr Nicholas Shmidt said in the paper that spinach contains less iron than lentils or dried beans, and the myth of it being exception-, ally good came from a secretary putting the decimal point in the wrong place when' she typed out a scientific report.
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Press, 9 May 1983, Page 10
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