PROPER NUTRITION FIRST
"I hate dictators.’’ declared Sir Percy Alden. chairman of the British Institute of Social Service, in a recent speech, "but I should like to be a dictator for a time to see what I could do for the health of the nation. If we British are to be an A 1 nation and make full use of the campaign for physical fitness, we must begin at the beginning and see that nutrition of our mothers and children is what it should be. We ought to see that every child in the country up to the age of 14 or 15 gets at least a pint of milk a day. This nutrition question is a problem of unsurpassed importance. We have concentrated on disease rather than on health; on the negative instead of the positive: on cure rather than prevention. The cost of sickness and disease in Britain every year is £1861000,000, and against this we spend only £500,000 on research. It is imperative that we change our whole outlook on this question. Exercises and games will hot entirely make up for ground lost through insufficient food.” ,
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 23528, 17 June 1938, Page 18
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