NUTRITION EXPERIMENT

Waikato Times, Volume 125, Issue 20912, 18 September 1939, Page 11

NUTRITION EXPERIMENT

BTUPENTB SUPPLY DATA

PUBLIC. SCHOOLBOYS STRONGEST (Times Air Mail Service) LONDON, August 25 One thousand schoolboys have provided data for an experiment in nutrition just concluded by Dr. Bathurst Norman, of Eton, Berks, in co-opera-tion with Dr. George Wilson, Deputy Director of Education for Durham County, reports the Daily Mirror. Half of them were from public schools in various parts of the country. Their health was compared with that of a “control group” of 500 secondary schoolboys from Stockton, Durham, Spennymoor and Auckland. The boys’ ages ranged from thirteen to eighteen. The public schoolboys were on an average three inches taller and TGlb heavier than secondary schoolboys in corresponding age groups. They were also found to be physically stronger. The “Strength” test was made by an apparatus which measured their pulling power. The “lumbar pull” of the public schoolboys was on an average 301 b greater than in the case of secondary schoolboys. The differences between the two groups of boys were found to be in line with the variation in diet. The foods, lacking in sufficiency in the secondary schoolboys’ diet, Dr. Norman states, were milk, eggs, fish, fresh vegetables, fruit and wholemeal cereals. The purpose of the investigation was to find the maximum physical development of boys of good nutrition and environment and to establish a comparison between such boys and a less favoured group.