OUR DAILY FOOD.

Auckland Star, Volume LVIII, Issue 184, 6 August 1927, Page 10

OUR DAILY FOOD.

2XWER AND SIMPLER MEALS. ADVICE OF DR. TEWSLEY. For over an hour at the Leys Institute last evening, Dr. C. H. Tewsley delivered a most interesting lecture on "How, what and when to eat." The lecture was the second of a series of three arranged by the Auckland division of the British Medical Association. The speaker said that good routine was provided by three meals a day with nothing in between. Meals should be fewer, simpler and smaller. A mixed diet was the best for a healthy man, but not too much of it. The speaker emphasised that it was essential to masticate the food and then the rest of the digestive apparatus would look after itself. He :• nt on to say that much tea drinking was apt to cause palpitation, but no exception could be taken to weak, freshly-made tea. It was not wise, however, to dilute food with too much fluid, but it was a good plan to drink plain water between meals. Making passing reference to the care of the teeth and their application to the digestive organs. Dr. Tewsley said that many people suffered the agony of indigestion because they have neglected to have their teeth placed in a sound and healthy condition. Many acute and chronic disseases were traceable to this lack of dental spring-cleaning. Touching on a pure vegetable diet, the doctor gave it as his opinion that men were capable of prolonged physical exertion on that particular diet. It mattered not whether proteins were derived from the animal or vegetable kingdom. It was largely a matter of habit. It was. however, far easier for a manual worker to be a vegetarian than it was for a brain worker. The lecture was profusely illustrated by a remarkable cinematograph film which showed the course of the food from the time t!<at it entered the mouth, through all of its processes of digestion, until it had been assimilated by various parts of the body to which it was applic able.