Word: pette
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...schools and doctors' offices across Canada bear little accurate relation to present national averages. They are based on U.S. insurance-company statistics, which do not necessarily apply in Canada, or on statistics compiled 40 years ago, when nutrition was far below today's standards. Dr. Lionel Pett, head of the Health Department's nutrition division, has tried for several years to interest the government in a survey to compile accurate Canadian tables. This year, after the World Health Organization had urged member nations to make new height-weight surveys, he got funds to finance the study...
...tables will be ready in about a year. Dr. Pett does not expect that they will show any striking variation from province to province but he does think they will prove average Canadians to be taller and heavier than Americans "because so many of us are from northern European stock." The tables' ultimate purpose, however, will not be to measure Canadians against others but against themselves, to tell the individual whether he weighs too much or too little for a person his age and height. Dr. Pett, 43, will learn whether his weight (151 lbs.) is, as he thinks...