LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
' INFANTILE PARALYSIS. Sir, —The doctors do not fell us much about this awful sickness that is affecting the young people. 1 believe it is caused through a delicieacy of essential foods. While we continue to feed on white flour, sugar, biscuits, cakes, pastry, etc., we will always have the doctors and the chemists working overtime. On the other hand if we started to-day to feed on, say, SO per cent, vegetables and fruit, and 20 per cent, dairy butter, honey, eggs, meat, milk, wholemeal bread, etc., I feel sure that infantile paralysis as well as most other sicknesses would soon be a thing of the past and non-recurrenT. Of course to produce good foods it is necessary to use new land every few seasons. Land cannot be cropped indefinitely and still produce foods containing the essential elements to maintain life in a healthy state. BENJAMIN A. PHELPS.
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Bay of Plenty Times, Volume LXV, Issue 12307, 22 April 1937, Page 3
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