BANS BREAKFAST.

Auckland Star, Volume LXXI, Issue 17, 20 January 1940, Page 7

BANS BREAKFAST.

[j HIS HEALTH DIET. I SIR LANCELOT'S FITNESS. NO RATIONING WORRIES. i (Special.—By Air Mail.) LONDON", December 23. There is at least one man in London who will not be worried by wartime rationing. Shortage of meat and other foodstuffs will leave him quite unconcerned. He is Sir Lancelot Elphinstone, who prides himself upon his physical Jitness. In his own words, "I can walk 20 miles before luncheon with perfect case, and sometimes I walk as much as 30 miles in a day." A distinguished legal authority, Sir Lancelot is former Chief Justice of Federated Malay States, AttorneyGeneral of British Honduras, Tanganyika Territory and Ceylon, and SolicitorGeneral of Trinidad. He told this week how he came to mako a drastic change in his diet, a change which included the banning of breakfast. "I was living in Ceylon at the time," he said, "and was much troubled with rheumatism, so much so that I was only able to work with liberal doses of aspirin. A niece who came to stay with my wife and myself, having cured herself of rheumatism, induced me to alter my meals. "At first I adopted a very restricted diet, eating nothing but fresh fruit, salads, dried fruit and a few nuts. I grew very weak and depressed, and had it not been for the chaff of my friends, I think I would have abandoned the fight. Eventually, i attained a state of general good health, better than I ever enjoyed before, even in boyhood. Now I find that my 'jov of life' and physical and mental activity have greatly increased." Sir Lancelot confines himself to two solid meals a day, his menus being as follows:— Early morning tea without milk, coffee and milk at 8.30 a.m. Luncheon, a salad, stewed fruit and an apple. Evening meal, a large salad, | cheese, toast, a little crisp bread, butter, I-honey, dried fruit or a slice of cake.