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Show RESEARCHER TELLS OF DIET DEFICIENCY the ages of 6 and 14 years, where the dietary information was obtained ob-tained from menus supplied by students during the school year. The average nutritional score of these 891 dietaries on the basis of 100 points, was only 54 points. Again the lack of lean meat, fruits and vegetables were the primary reasons for the deficiency, she said. Outlining in detail, just how the experiments on Vitamin C have been earned out, she said . Part of the paper was devoted to a summary of findings of "Ascorbic Acid Nutrition of College Col-lege Students." In conclusion, she said that the data gathered from farm families scattered widely over the state, reveal deficiencies m iron, phosphours and animal protein pro-tein which is due mainly to inadequate in-adequate use of foods that could readily be supplied on the farm. The ' same deficiencies exist in diets of our school children, where research has shown that the vitamin C content of a large the college experimenters have used every new tests as it devel- oped. We started with the Gothlin blood pressure technique, then to urinary content tests, and later to ' the more accurate blood plasma plas-ma tests which are now used. A recent addition to the experimental experi-mental laboratory is a photo, electric colorimeter, which shows concentration of ascorbic ' acid, or vitamin C, in clear blood plasma. plas-ma. This speeds up the research and . eliminates long laboratory procedures, she explained. group of children is inadequate to prevent scurvy in guinea pugs and rats and to sustain the nor. mal growth of laboratory animals. Data also appears to warrant the assumption that diet is inadequate to promote maximal growth of children. "If we would show the good sense to make use of he nutn tional information we now have,, there would be little malnutrition," malnutri-tion," she declared. "I would like to emphasize that alongside and closely associated with continued research, we should have more and more trained nutritionists with the., skill to interpret in a practical way, the findings of rereach." |
