EGGS EATEN RAW
Strength-giving Food ATHLETE’S PRACTICE Louden, March 18. That. Dr. O’Callaghan, the 18-stone Irish Olympic hammer-throwing champion. seven raw eggs as a prebreakfast dish when in training Is revealed in a book of advice to athletes by R. M. N. Tisdall, the famous Cambridge sportsman. O'Callaghan finds raw eggs add strength and increase weight. When he was travelling to Los Angeles for the Olympiad heat obliged the suspension of the egg. diet, whereupon his weight Immediately dropped.
Tisdall joins modern medical opinion against early morning exercise before breakfast, contending that before retiring is the best time for physical jerks. “You do not race the engine of a car before it is properly wanned up. It is the same with the body.”
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Dominion, Volume 27, Issue 148, 20 March 1934, Page 9
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123EGGS EATEN RAW Dominion, Volume 27, Issue 148, 20 March 1934, Page 9
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