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Show Bananas Prove Popular as Food for Training Bananas have become popular as a training food with British football players. Professional trainers of athletes have come out in favor of the banana on account of the readiness with which it is digested and the fact that it contains a higher percentage of calories than most other fruits. Football players want to avoid any risk of "stuffing," but during cold weather they want to be sure that whatever they eat will contain as many heat units as possible. ." The trainers maintain that before a football match, for instance, when the players are pressed for time, or between periods of the game, when they are more or less exhausted, the banana is the most suitable food, especially as It carries a guarantee that until Its natural germ-proof wrapper wrap-per is peeled away it is free from contamination. con-tamination. . ' |