EATING BY BOYS
THE NEED FOR FOOD
PROFESSOR IN DEFENCE
LONDON. Jan. 5
Professor T. IT. .Mottram, Professor of Physiology in I lie University of Lon. don, in an address to women sanitary inspectors, denied the truth of the common assertion that schoolboys are "little, pigs."' On the contrary, he said, science showed that gluttony in growing boys was a very healthy sign. They shi'rtild cat more' than I heir fathers, especially between the ages of 14 and 18, when 'they were entitled to as much food as a man doing a hard day's work.
Oil Is of between 11 and 13 required more food than boys, the prafessor added.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LVI, 20 January 1926, Page 3
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110EATING BY BOYS Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LVI, 20 January 1926, Page 3
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