RAISING MENTAL LEVELS
NEW SCIENCE OP POOD HOPES TO AVERT IDIOCY PITTSBURGH, Sept. 10. :.;-.'■■ A revolution ,in the methods of growing fo'Odstttiffs to bring about a - •■■• race o't supermen and women was foroeast to-day 'by Dr. E. I\ Armstrong. president of the" Association of British Chemical Manufacturers, iri addressing the American Chemical Society. The new -science of food, lie declared, may raise, the mental . le**!*-*-*• of the human race and even eliminate* the idiot, whose mental defect may be due Only to the absence-of a.--titty—_ ■• amount of iodine in his diet. "One big problem to-day is to discover what chemical substances in food, if any, can give intelligence, ' ■'■ courage and alertness to the inhabi- ; tanrs of a city. Can we feed t«i ' produce nervous strength and mental agility in the same way we have t learned to eat vitamins to prevent-' scurvy,- pellagra, rickets and other ; diseases?" he asked.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19141, 9 October 1936, Page 3
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