DEFECTIVE EATING MAIN CAUSE OF POOR HEALTH.
ST. LOUIS, Mo., Get. 27—Faulty habits of eating are Hie fundamental basis of a great defect- in American health, Assistant- Superintendent Shackleford. of the St. Louis public schools declared at. a sectional meeting of the American Public Health Association. He also attacked the tooth brush theory, declaring “a clean tooth does decay.” “The tooth brush has a small contribution to make towards the prevention of dental caries. Ris an elegance in ordinary social life but is not the remedy for the dental caries. “Tlie how legs we moot on the si root, the stooped shoulders and sunken elitists are all the result of a rickety condition in ehildhod, of a faulty calcium diet in adult life) and'hear' unite testimony to I Ih> fact that this mineral has been deficient in the diet olji large number of children and adults."
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LI, Issue 16918, 24 December 1925, Page 15
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146DEFECTIVE EATING MAIN CAUSE OF POOR HEALTH. Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LI, Issue 16918, 24 December 1925, Page 15
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