EAT POTATOES
CLAIM THAT THEY DO NOT FATTEN LONDON, April 2. The idea that potatoes fatten was contradicted by Captain John Alollett, chairman of the Potato Alarketing Board, when he addressed the annual conference of the National Federation of Fruit and Potato Trades’ Association. “ We hope,'’ he said, “ to set afoot a really strong movement for getting people to eat more potatoes. _ During the last few years the whole industry of potato growing and marketing appears to have been contracting like. the female silhouette. The two things seem to go together. Wo want to convince the fair sex that they are on the wrong lines when they cut out potatoes in order to get slim. I think we can do it. There is ample evidence to show that potatoes do not fatten. They only nourish.”
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Evening Star, Issue 21711, 4 May 1934, Page 9
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135EAT POTATOES Evening Star, Issue 21711, 4 May 1934, Page 9
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