DIET AND CANCER.

Press, Volume LX, Issue 18087, 31 May 1924, Page 14

DIET AND CANCER.

TO THE. EDITOR- O? "tHK HttisS." Sir, —In the words of, our own DrThacker, your correspondents, "J. Devereux" and "D." are both offside. Why should they waste time and talk about the "natural" food of man when any food he can best adapt himself to is his natural food.. After reading the views of the cancer specialists in the cancer number of the Canadian "Practitioner," I am bound to accept the first hand information given by Col. -McGarrison. He shows beyond doubt that the Hindu traces, som© of whicti h© lived amongst for years, are not troubled with the curse of canoer, and the vegetable, fruit, eto., diet is the only explanation. ,

However he had the support of the majority of the cancer experts, including such eminent authorities as Sir Arbu,thnot Lane. Sir Linthal Cheadle and Dr. t Robert. Bell, and their'work ought to ~ concern anyone that the meatless diet is the most healthful, therefore the most natural food' for man. —Yours, etc., M.D. TO THB JEDITOR.. OT "tKB PKESS.'' Sir,—At long last I have- a foeman aptly named " D." With/your, kind permission I will do my best to turn him into a lifelong and [ grateful friend. Unfortunately his statements are those of the uninformed man in the street, who eats things because they taste, nice, without any scientific knowledge whatsoever as to the harm or othe« wise.the food is doing him. ' This man in the street has children whose teeth are rotting in their heads, whose physical and mental efficiency are horribly below par, who are probably suffering from goitre (another wrong feeding disease,, which if weaTe not careful.wil} fill our-country with misshapen idiots in about two generations), and whose' wife is more of ten than not a poor /misshapen woman,; either too thin or too fat (caused. by digestive troubles),. is anasmic and battling along under a load of unnecessary trouble. , Illness of some description is never very far J away, .and the average length of life' of these people in the street is somewhere about 39, the shortest-lived animal we know of in proportion to his maturity age; and if they are luckjr enough to reach the age of 45 they have the certain knowledge that thore ia only a three to one chance that theirdeath (which must occur) will not be caused by cancer, as one in four die of this fearful disease over that ago and the other three are probably only lucky to die of something else. If | this man in the street has. the good for- ; tune to live to, say, eighty or ninety, ' whereas he ought really to be youthful j at a hundred and twenty, the picture he and his wife present of old age, > for about thirty or forty years, is not a very pleasant or inspiring one. I saw a horse the other* day over 35 years of age (17 times its maturity age), and it was rtill able to gallop and presented quite a youthful figure of energy and efficiency.. Seventeen times our maturity age would be about 400 years, and yet, why not? Parrots have been known to live to 700, living mOßtly on fruit pulp, and 400 years,'ls not old to tmany living things—as long aB they are fed right. The Gymnosophists of India spbsfeted entirety upon fruits and fresh vegetables. I£ • was part of their -Teligious ordinance's to eat nothing but what ,&he~ sun had ripened and mad- efit for food without any further preparation, _ Although India is a very short-lived country, the maturity age being very early and the average life being only 25, these people iere perfectly healthy, and lived to i'so and 200 years. ' . . Cancer is a disease or degeneracy. Anything that causes the body to get into a degenerated and 'poisoned epn* dition, assists cancer. , It is in tW* sense that meat-eating is,a,cause pi cancer, but I did not say the., only cause; because tea,-coffee,- and alcoholdrinking, over-eating, smoking, drugtaking, the. eating of condiments raid other irritating foods, too much salt (causing salt retention), refined foods which are slow but sure-poisons: such as white bread, fancy and', any white flour products),-white sugar, confection&y, (etc., etc.,, are-aU proved by the Hon., Eollo Russell p "The Reduction of Cancer" to cause an increase in the incidence'of cancer. In fact, any degenerating or body-poisoning tactor, of which meat is one of the worst, will assistance* in its fell work. ■ Hence nb wonder Sir Arbuthnot Lane, one of the most eminent medical men in the world to-day, one of the world's greatest authorities on' the' stomach and intestines,' has made a special study of those regions of the body in relation to cancer, sayS, aa your article last Friday plainly- shows, that the only way we can possibly, avoid cancer (and of course app*aaicigi and! all .tne other diseases I have mentioned previously),, is by a complete,, revolution in our diet. . ■ X I authority by the ! score for your correspondent to read ' onthe question of* ffesh-eating, but for a start I would advise Mm to read the works of Dr. Haig.who i* regarded ■J? the medical World, as the'greatest I Sthority knowvas an absolute>, classy on the question of uric acid; He proves without a shadow of doubt that meat 1 produces, deadly poisons in-the body. ! After he has read a httlo and I changed his somewhat old-fashioned, viewf I would like your correspondent to study in' Dr. Densmore's book the 1 ompSive anatomy <g«g& 1 SSdISS thi ? prTsent day .with the ! frutt and nut-eaters and entirely disl SSSJto tbcmeat-eater*-. For g- ! stance our intestinal canal ia twelve' «™p« the length of the body (as in STZJK and in the carnivorait is th ? \C„ times Meat ia such a-.ter--1 only ta»«- putrefy, cause conrible substance-to P« __ S3■ U mS be P Sled expeditiously that it mu« ue not by the body, ana w" Y r cte built for b^K S DEVEBV - May 29th, 1924.