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IN these days, when importunate writers in the newspaper world urge us to eat this and avoid that, and conjure up needless uncertainties, this little book, comprising 96 pages of compact trustworthy information and advice, is calculated to preserve a steady view and balance in matters of food and health, and what may be reasonably expected to follow should prudent counsel prevail. “May not a reasonable man think that a cup of tea is not food? ” asked the judge. “Not a medical man, my lord,” said the witness. “I said a reasonable man,” the judge replied (Times, Law Reports, April 1,1927). It is, of course, arguable that if the beverage contains milk and sugar, here is a food, yet scarcely nourishment in the true sense. Mrs. Callow supplies an informing well-written chapter on the discovery of vitamins; another on their restraining influence in that widely prevalent disease, rickets, is a feature. The task outlined in the introduction, “to show how a complex problem can be simplified by the application of scientific knowledge,” is certainly sustained.
Food and Health: an Introduction to the Study of Diet.
Mrs.
A. Barbara
Callow
By. (The World's Manuals.) Pp. 96 + 4 plates. (London: Oxford University Press, 1928.) 2s. 6d. net.
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Food and Health: an Introduction to the Study of Diet . Nature 122, 93 (1928). https://doi.org/10.1038/122093d0
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