HUMAN FATNESS.
atavistic tendencies
LONDON, January 15. Obesity is the most decided example degenerative atavism, said Dr. onard Williams, an authority o:i ;fatness and the stages of life, a lecture on man's atavistic tenancies. man, he said, was imitating ® hibernating habits of his animal and accumulating vast stores . _ er ? a l provisions—a sub-conscious P Paction for the winter's fast, which "ever arrived. Williams attributed man's sense tea especially of female &n/v' J?. k> 3 transcendental brain, td w!? abilit y s peak, to his decision alk on two legs. If he had remained deve q i U^ Uped ' would not have that central nervous system ties 'I € . sea t of such god-like qualias ie might justly claim to possess. to v 'tal energy was necessary w ' negro black that he had left to develop his central the. ri US i- s y s^ern - This accounted for Dr TO-ii aCeS ' childlike character. tend!.. Ms attributed the post-war fevulsinn /° effeminac y i n ™en to a from everything male.
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Auckland Star, Issue 17, 21 January 1932, Page 7
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