The child whose deep-seated suspicion of spinach made him refuse broccoli had the right of it. So said Chemist Roger Williams Truesdail of Los Angeles to the mothers and fathers of Redlands, Calif., last week.
"After all," said he, "youngsters have been exactly right in their tearful resistance to the supposed builder of sturdy bodies. The calcium properties of spinach are not available to the human system. Only 20% of its iron is available. But this is not the worst of it. The oxalate radical in spinach precipitates the calcium from other foods and carries it away."
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