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...next oldest in a family of nine children raised on a South Georgia farm. I can never remember seeing on our table a lamb chop, glass of sweet milk, whole wheat bread, spinach, lettuce or celery. Our parents disliked sweet milk and we were not forced to drink it. We ate fruits & vegetables in season: none out; had beef on Sundays. We consumed approximately the following...
...foremost U. S. violinist, artistic to his fingertips. The violinist is Albert Spalding, the laxative Fletcher's Castoria. These two got together because two years ago Castoria's producers came to the conclusion that its decreasing sales could not be blamed entirely on the modern spinach-way of feeding children. They reviewed their advertising, the barns throughout the land which for two generations have been plastered with their slogan "Children Cry for It."- It was all too oldfashioned, they decided, too suggestive of an old-fashioned remedy, so they painted out the signs, discarded the slogan, went...
...fresh meats, vegetables, cereals, eggs, milk, fish, fresh fruit and sea-salt. Allowed to eat as much as they wanted of whatever they wanted, they proceeded to eat just as pediatricians would forbid them-quantities of meat and eggs, few vegetables and cereals. None of them ever ate spinach a second time. Some ate a wide variety of foods, some specialized But when, after five years, their individual diets were analyzed. Dr. Davis found that Nature had guided them wisely. Their diets were balanced, their teeth almost perfect...
...Memphis, Dr. Edward H. Carey, president of the American Medical Association, stated that just as much iron could be absorbed by the system from sucking a 20-penny nail as from eating a dish of spinach...
Uncle Don. An oldtime Pollyannic announcer who tells about his fans' birthdays, tells stories, sings nonsense songs, urges children to eat their spinach...