The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-05-30


 under one year, pro school young ster of to s, early school young Sters of 6 to il, adolescent girls and adolescent boys,
 To keep you from worrying about how you happened to live as long as you have without this formula, it might be said here that the table, as 1t now stands, Is perfectly un- intelligible to everyone dumber than a college chemistry professor, as it Is made out in terms of grains of protein and calcium; miligrams of iron, thiamln, ascorbic acid, nico- tinic acid and riboflavin, and T U." which means International Units-whateve they are-of Vita mins A and D The table, 1t should be explained, was made out by sci- entists,
 HOW RIG IS
 AN ORANGE?
 Before the table Is At to hang on a kitchen wall beside the shopping list, 1t will have to be translated inc to spinach and carrots, and before that is done, the nutritionists are going to have to determine Q lot of other things. In the first place, how big Is Q breakfast orange2 Natural ly, the bigger the fruit, the higher the Vitamins,
 It is perhaps unfair to kid this project, for 1t Is important. It is probably the most important event that will happen this year, for the job of getting everyone the right amounts of the right kinds of food Is dependent entirely on knowing what are the right kinds and the right amounts.
 Behind this chart is e really fas- cinating story of research and de- velopment. More scientific domes have been worried gray or plucked bald in trying to figure this out, and there have actually been bat ties over It's making, Research on the subject began l2 or l5 years ago, about the time vltamins be-. came fashionable and calories were put in the same class with your grandmother's single standard of morals.
 About @ year ago, the thing really got hot. The National Research Council set up Q committee to get busy on the project and M. L. Will son, head of the extension service in the Department of Agriculture, asked pr, Russell M, Wilder of the Mayo clinic to look into 1t. pr. Will der nominated pr, Lydia J. Roberts chairman of the University of Chi cago Department of Home Econo- mics, to get up e statement, A LADY
 LEADS OFF
 pr Roberts made Q survey of all the researchers, all the investigators and all the teachers on subjects per- taining to nutrition, asking them for their opinions on how this thing should be handled. When all re- turns were in, she packed them up and went to Mexico--for q vacation.
 pr. Roberts simmered all the evi- dence and, by Mexican sun-drying, got 1t to q workable basis In three months time. She came back in February, submitted her report, and then the shooting began.
 Nobody could agree. Tho table was all made out and ready to an- nounce at Q Nutrition Institute meet ing In Chicago last April, but at the last minute the pediatrieians dec!d- ed that four and five miliigrams of ribofiavin was too much for the dict of pregnant or nursing mother, so the chart was held up.
 It took six weeks of arguing among the nutrition experts to get any agreement of opinion The chart was supposed to be announced In q big radio program Sunday, May 25, but 1t was late Saturday night be- fore the tired scientists came to an agreement as to what they should announce as the ideal diet to save the world.