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...experiment, sponsored by the Research committee of the Edible Gelatin Manufacturers of America, revealed that "no effect on efficiency nor extraordinary increase in capacity for work in young men can be attributed to gelatin...
Supermen cannot be made by eating gelatin as some recent advertisements have intimated, according to Dr. D. B. Dill of the Fatigue Laboratory, which last year carried out an extensive experiment with the effects of gelatin on the strength and endurance of athletes...
...purpose of the Laboratory's work was to check the early claims of a gelatin sales organization which indicated that gelatin could increase a man's capacity for work by 200% or more. Dr. Dill explained that "if gelatin has such effects on all men, we must recast the theories and practices of physical training upon which rest many techniques of sport, of war, and of industry." It would mean that if a man could run a mile in four minutes, he could, with the help of gelatin, do what no man has yet done run a mile...
About half of those men started taking 60 grams of gelatin a day early in the winter and continued for six or eight weeks. When those men discontinued taking gelatin, the other half of the group started. It was expected that any effects produced by the gelatin would be revealed by divergence in the curves of work performance for the gelatin and non-gelatin groups...
...Health News, official bulletin of the New York State Department of Health, noted that "sand soaps" used by factory workers were often more damaging to the skin than industrial irritants, offered the following cleansing formula: "Equal parts of sulfonated neat's foot oil and liquid petrolatum containing 25% gelatin ... are added to white granulated corn meal in the proportion of one-and-a-half parts, by weight, of corn meal and one part, by weight, of the oil mixture. To prevent growth of mold or bacteria a 0.5 solution of chlorobutanol is added...