Nutrition

"We set up a required nutrition course for all students."

"We conducted a few experiments too. We took a group of twenty girls, all of whom had poor attendance because of illness which included headache, stmachache, overweight, underweight, or general debility. We put them on a sensible diet: good breakfast, low calorie, high protein lunches and dinners, only one cup of coffee a day, cake once a week, no candy. After one month, the effects were remarkable: physical illness disappeared, attendance was almost perfect, the fat ones lost weight, the thin ones gained."

"Then we conducted another experiment with two small dormitory units. One was left to have meals as they wished. In the other, we prevailed upon them to try a three-month experiment of having a good breakfast every morning ... Again the effects were dramatic. In the other dormitory, there was the usual run of colds, with most of the students having to stay out two weeks or so, and the usual languorous mid-morning feelings. In the good-breakfast dormitory, there was only one minor case of sniffles that lasted a day and no weight gains during the period."

"I don't know what is more important than health in the lives of the young people in our charge. And there is no question in my mind that mental performance and academic progress are to a great extent conditioned by good eating habits."