HEALTHY FOOD.

Auckland Star, Volume LXIX, Issue 285, 2 December 1938, Page 12

HEALTHY FOOD.

SEAWEED IN DIET.

WOMEN'S LEAGUE MEETS.

Interesting facts about food and health were given by two sjveakers at a general meeting of the Women's Food Value League held in the Lewis Eady Hall last night. Tlie president, Miss A. L. Louden presided over a good attendance.

The first speaker, Mr. Storr, of Canada, spoke on the teaching of health rules to Canadian school children through the medium of art. The doctors there, he said, drew the children pictures of the effect of foods on their health. For instance, a sketch was done of a child who ate up his spinach, and another of the child who refused it. Mr. Storr illustrated his talk by drawings. He also spoke of the Consumer's League in Canada which delved into relative values of articles marketed.

Dr. Guy Chapman, who has just returned from a trip around the Islands where he studied the diet of natives, was the second speaker. He stated that he could pick out among the children those who had been f d on native foods and those who had followed the European diet, simply by looking at their teeth.

Dr. Chapman spoke of the use of cocoanuts and the strong vitamin content in coeoanut milk and demonstrated the grating of cocoanuts and tlie squeezing through muslin to obtain the coeoanut milk.

He urged the use of more and more seaweed in New Zealand, adding that many edible kinds could be obtained oil our own coasts.

Wheat germ oil, he said, was a new and important discovery which, he considered, would revolutionise diets. This oil, which was. antiseptic, could cause serious disease to disappear entirely in women and girls. He spoke strongly of the grinding of flour. After 10 days the vitamin content was so reduced that this precious wheat germ oil disappeared.

The meeting listened most atten tively to Dr. Chapman and at the con elusion showed their enthusiasm by ask ing many questions.