TONIC MILK.

Gisborne Times, Volume LXVII, Issue 10475, 4 January 1928, Page 3

TONIC MILK.

NERVE STIMULANT

The effect of milk'as a stimulant ol growth and mental activity in cluldlicod has recently|been under investigation (says they-‘Da.ly Mail”). In America 8-1 cliilden at a charity school were examined: 42 were given a. full ordinary diet, and 42 bad a pint of milk spbst.tuted for some other constituent). It was found that those who hadyvmilk increased in

weight and statife-e more rapidi.v than those who had pot, even when the latter were giveii an extra ration ol sugar and bread./ The results wpro so striking that the experiment wjas reversed to prove that tho 42 children on ordinary d.et were capable of /such extra growth, and this was found to be the ease. It was noted thalt those who had the milk were, quickrjr, and more difficult to manage thanfTho others, suggesting that the m/ilk had a definitely stimulating effect on tho nervous sr.s tom. [■

Those experiments have'been repeated and confirmed at an establishment near I.oijid.on, with (he additional evidence/.'that the children on milk were genfernllv more liealtby, and less ■ subie<ft;' r to illness, and liad smoother skins (And a straiglder carriage. Butter land watercress added to the diet im-yoased the weight hut not tho statnrji* The questioifl whether there is some vital and xpieciiil element, in milk which stimulates the development ol the skeleton Aw! also H'o menial and nervous systijuu »1 the child is being further investigated.