Word: jokling
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Dates: during 1941-1941
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...hanger without being fit to decide the destiny of a continent. . . . A man without legs is unfit for walking but may be an outstanding fighter pilot." These challenging questions & answers were made last week in the Journal of the American Medical Association by two South African doctors. Drs. Ernst Jokl and Eustace Henry Cluver of Johannesburg. To determine the physical fitness of thousands of their countrymen, they had made many and varied experiments...
...Recently they rounded up 32 young men from the "poor white" class. Since these men had no major diseases, most doctors would call them physically fit. But they were dull, undernourished, sluggish, plagued by colds, rheumatism, headaches.' No employer would hire them. Drs. Jokl and Cluver sent them to a Government-sponsored camp, gave them food, exercise, recreation. In six months they produced an improvement "truly remarkable." Soon after the training period, most of the men found good jobs...
...During the last few years, Drs. Jokl and Cluver have made 20,000 tests on children between the ages...
...Scientists know practically nothing about the effect of food on physical efficiency. Drs. Jokl and Cluver compared the athletic performances of two sets of children: a "poor" group which ate mostly carbohydrates, a few vegetables; a "rich" group which had plenty of vegetables, meat and dairy products. When both groups were put through their paces, there was no difference in efficiency, before adolescence, between the "poor" and "rich" children; after adolescence, the poor children dropped far below the others...