Food and Muscle.
Dr. Yorke-Davies tells this story : Many years ago when a great English contractor had to lay down a long line of railway in France, he employed a number of English and French navvies. He found that the Frenchmen could only do half the work of the Englishmen, and being a shrewd man, he concluded it must be duo to tho difference in their food ; so ho tten put the Frenchmen on the same diet as the Englishmen, with the result that they were ablo to do as much work as the Englishmen. It showed how important a factor food was In the production of muscular power, and even the present feeding of tho English soldier—imperfect as it is—would always mako him more taan e. match for tho French one
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVI, Issue 187, 12 August 1904, Page 2
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132Food and Muscle. Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVI, Issue 187, 12 August 1904, Page 2
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