SCIENCE AND FOOD

Sun (Auckland), Volume 1, Issue 2, 24 March 1927, Page 2

SCIENCE AND FOOD

AMERICANS’ THEORY

" ROAD TO HEALTH

Americans to-day are more healthy, says the “San Francisco Examiner.,” more successful and a greater world influence than they were a few years ago, because — A few’ years ago they used to eat breakfast consisting of a stack of hots, a couple of eggs, a rasher of bacon, a few sausages, some hot biscuits and a pint or so of coffee —whereas — To-day science, in the guise of a waiter, serves them a dish of cereal with cream and a cup of beverage.

At least, this is the theory of a group of men who arrived in San Francisco to attend a Pacific Coast convention of the Post Products Company.

Clarence Francis, of New York, vicepresident and general sales manager for the company, did not express it in just those words, but that’s the idea. "People eat less to-day than formerly,” he explained, "and they eat more in accordance with scientific knowledge rather than by the old hit-and-miss dictates of an uneducated appetite. “To-day the universities and the large food products concerns maintain laboratories that work out to a nicety just what people should eat —and how much of it.

‘'ln this way food manufacturers are able to produce foods that form a balanced diet, and the sole remaining problem is to keep them from eating too much."