“STUPID DIET HABITS” CONDEMNED
CARE OF CHILDREN'S TEETH DISCUSSED (P.A.) WELLINGTON, Aug. 17. “I do not object to children having sweets or cake, but they should have them at mealtime,” said Sir Thomas Hunter, who was the first director of the State school dental service, in criticising what he termed New Zealand’s “stupid diet” and diet habits, in the course of an address at the graduation ceremony to-day at the State dental clinic. One habit he condemned was overeating. “People to-day are living to eat, instead of eating to live,” he said. Gone, he added, was the practice of three meals a day. Sir Thomau Hunter, in referring to care of the teeth of two-year-olds, said some of the most important ingredients in food were being wasted. In bread, for instance, the most important properties were milled out in the production of the white loaf and sugar and rice were two other products similarly treated. He felt the school dental service should devise a diet scheme to overcome the necessity for dental treatment of school children.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 69, Issue 263, 19 August 1949, Page 6
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