Diet for children / by Cecil Webb-Johnson.

  • Webb-Johnson, Cecil, 1879-1930.
Date:
[1924]
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Credit: Diet for children / by Cecil Webb-Johnson. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    INTRODUCTION In the month of January, 1922, the Editor of The Times opened his columns to a discussion on “ The Feeding of Schoolboys.” As was to be expected headmasters of public schools, the leading medical authorities on diet, the parents of schoolboys, and others interested in the subject joined in the controversy. As is invariably the case the lay reader was left in the quagmire of uncertainty, for he found that there were three classes of correspondents, viz.: (1) Those who considered that schoolboys are underfed. (2) Those who considered that schoolboys are overfed, but wrongly fed. (3) Those who considered that schoolboys were fed correctly. Had it been put to the vote, in all probability the medical men and others who considered that