Country Life
THE OSLO BREAKFAST.
From the household of a distinguished Scandinavian, who owns an English farm, comes a letter suggesting that Norway at any rate is reaching the consummation suggested on this page last week as wholly desirable for Britain. It deals with the newer discoveries of the value of milk for the young. My correspondent writes :
" The whole of Scandinavia is very enthusiastic, and I suppose the authorities will follow the lead everywhere. At present the idea is called the Oslo breakfast. At all schools in the capital (in many other towns as well) breakfast is served free to all children. It consists of half a litre of milk—a very big glass—wholemeal bread with butter, wholemeal rusks, one good sized raw carrot, one apple or orange. Also cheese, and that special ScandinaVian cheese made from whey (you can buy it in London) which there is considered extremely valuable as it contains among other things all the milk sugar. The results have been astonishing, and the Government has now started a regular propaganda teaching the housewives all over the country how to understand the science of proper nourishment. The children's teeth have already benefited enormously and the craving for sweets has declined."
There is much more in the letter ; but if it is the object of a State to improve the physique of its citizens and its agriculture at the same time here is an object lesson indeed. It is peculiarly interesting to know that the German belief in " carotin " is upheld as well as the belief in milk. We do not want the children to be restricted to one meal, but there are some zealots who assert that the Oslo breakfast will maintain vigour for twenty-four hours. * * * *
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