LACK OF VITAMINS

Waikato Times, Volume 125, Issue 20988, 15 December 1939, Page 9

LACK OF VITAMINS

DIET FOR SCHOOLBOYS MAKING UP DEFICIENCIES “Headmasters are becoming acquainted with the usual lack of vitamins C and D in the everyday menu, and we see what we can do to overcome these deficiencies by giving boys oranges regularly, and especially in the winter, supplying vitamin D in the form of cod-liver oil or adexolin in milk,” said Mr H. G. Sergei, headmaster of Southwell School, at the break-up ceremony yesterday. “I have read that a lack of vitamin C is inclined to make people badtempered and irritable. Can you wonder therefore that a headmaster of a preparatory school is a strong advocate for the regular consumption of oranges! “Next year we hope to gain some useful information, as the Medical Research Council has set up a dental committee to obtain information from various institutions as to menus and to examine the dental condition of the same institutions in order, I expect, to learn what effect on the teeth has been made by any particular menu or menus.”