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Show Tests Prove the Power of Food Demonstrate Vitamin-Rich Diet Vital to Health. By C. HOUSTON GOUDISS lf ANKIND owes many -l-'-i things to the animals which have been used as test subjects in laboratories all over the world. As doctors and scientists have waged their war against disease, as they have made great strides forward in the study of foods and nutrition, they have carried on many of their experiments with' rats. . The rats pictured here dramatically dramati-cally illustrate the pewsr of fond to influence growth. Although these two rats are exactly the same age, -aa the weight of one is twice that of his brother. Where one animal is puny and underdeveloped, the second is at and sleek and full of vitality. What has produced such a difference differ-ence in weight and general physical well-being? Merely a slight difference differ-ence in diet. The two rats have lived under identically the same conditions, but the smaller animal on the left has received food lack- ing in sufficient vitamins, while the other rat has been fed the same diet reinforced with vitamins. If a well-balanced food ration is vital to the health of animals, how much more vital "it must be for human beings. Surely the lesson is Plam to see. If a mother wants her cinldren to thrive she must feed them adequately. The child who is reccvlug a diet lacking i vitamin, nas no chance to grow and develoo properly. Nor will the .dult ot I aefiuent diet attain or maintain optimum health. EDITOR'S NOeTTo pan a dfet wisely, to recognize the foods rich to important food elements, we muS learn to utilize the discoverieT o science. We must keep abreast o the newer knowledge of nutrition as Presented by wise, unbiased terpreters such as C. Houston Gou. a. nationally known food author-ty, author-ty, who each week offers his what to Eat and Why" column in thL newspaper. In this column Mr Goudlss translates the latest devS opments into simple, non-techn,cal language. By following his arS resularly, it is easy to kegD y h the most up-to-date finding of nutritional science. " 01 |