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Jason’s his being alone all the time, and he fed his mouse packaged TV dinners, cereal boxes and canned

mother Junky the same. The little mouse grew nervous, foods she bought, down to the last gram of pro-
just like Jason. He always made a big mess of tein, fat, and sugar. As a teacher of nutrition,
figured from the newspaper lining in the bottom of his cage she knew the theoretical food content of every
her study of until it was in shreds, just as Jason’s bedroom morsel she tried to feed him. Jason, however,
nutrition data was always littered with clothes and stuff. would sneak a snack from the kitchen cupboards
"Jason, enough sugar on your frosted flakes, after skimping on regular meals. He craved sweet

tables that already. Stop, when I tell you," his mother yelled things, maybe as a substitute for his parents’
Jason was at him almost every morning before she went to absent affections. Whatever he ate, though, he
getting all the work. "And eat your eggs!" was sure to feed to Junky.

"But Mom, you know I hate eggs!" he said
His live-in nanny felt sorry for him and
nutrients as he slammed his spoon on the table. prepared whatever he wanted, including pastry
his body "Now get dressed for school. Hurry! We doughnuts made with white flour, dusted with
needed, but were late yesterday because of you." powdered sugar and filled with yummy straw-
"Do I have to?" he would whine as he slowly berry jelly. These he ate until he could eat no

she noticed walked to his room. "I’m tired." more and, as usual, gave whatever remained to
that he was All that sugar he ate made him sleepy, even his mouse.

often sick. in the morning after having slept nine hours. Jason’s mother figured from her study of
Jason was now eating mostly junk foods, like nutrition data tables that Jason was getting all the
sugary sodas, frosted flakes and candy bars. nutrients his body needed, but she noticed that
His mother studied the food labels on the he was often sick. Jason started to get chunky

A STORY WITH A BASIS OF TRUTH

This children’s story is based in part on actual events. In the 1960s, nutritionist Gina Larson’s ten-year experimental pro-
gram at Helix High School in San Diego resulted in statewide honors in academic and athletic contests, and its sports
insurance premiums greatly reduced. In the 1970s, a similar program was launched at seventy elementary schools in Fulton
County, Georgia, by Sarah Sloan, director of nutrition, achieving similar excellent results. When the principal founders
of these two programs died, the school systems promptly reverted to machine-vended snacks and refined foods from
government surplus.

Devoted individuals can make a big difference by being a role model for their kids, participating in school lunch programs,
and letting their school board members know what wholesome nutrition means. For over twenty-three years, Ruth Ros-
evear, a teacher in the Cincinnati, Ohio school system, showed the living results of her Goody and Junky experiment to
her students, using two rats of the same litter, with Goody fed only good food and Junky fed only junk food. Within six
weeks, the difference in their size, weight, and disposition was startling. Fortunately, when Junky resumed a wholesome
diet after six weeks, the animal fully recovered.

These experiments at Helix High and in the Georgia school system are presented in the video entitled Better Food for Bet-
ter Students, available from the Price Pottenger Nutrition Foundation, San Diego. Produced in 1986 by R.M. Dell’Orfano
with a grant from Ruth Rosevear, it also shows some of Dr. Weston Price’s world research travels, investigating the link
between modern diets and dental cavities.

For those interested in scientific evidence, read "Childhood Violence: Is Malnutrition the Cause?" an article by R.M.
Dell'Orfano in Wise Traditions, Summer 2002. “Unhealthy mental functioning, accompanied by macabre paranoid percep-
tions and hallucinations, can result from a sudden drop in blood sugar after limiting breakfast to only a soft drink. Such
seemingly unimportant and innocent indulgences, practiced on a daily basis for an extended period of time, could easily
trigger a tragic shooting on some school campus.”

Dr. Weston A. Price discovered that proper nutrition can reverse certain genetic defects that pass from generation to
generation, backed with pertinent photos and detailed observations in his book, Nutrition and Physical Degeneration,
available from the Price-Pottenger Nutrition Foundation.
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