EATING BY BOYS.
THE NEED FOR FOOD. PROFESSOR IN 'DEFENCE. LONDON, Jan. 5. Professor V. H. Mottram, Professor of Physio logy in the University of London. in an address to women sanitary inspectors, denied the truth of the common assertion that schoolboys are “little pigs.” On the contrary, bo said, science showed that gluttony in grow•>g boys was a very healthy sign. They should eat more than their fathers, es'iallv between the ages of 14 and IS. when they were entitled to as much food as Ai man doing a hard day’s work. Gir.’s of between 11 and 13 required more food than boys, the professor added,
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Hawera Star, Volume XLV, 22 January 1926, Page 5
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