FOOD AND HEALTH

Press, Volume LXXIII, Issue 22167, 10 August 1937, Page 16

FOOD AND HEALTH

TO THE EDITOB OT THE PEE3B. Sir, —It is the duty of us all to-day to convince at least all thinking people that no man, any more than plants, can live on food in which some element is missing. That is why Dr. Magendie’s beef-tea dogs died of a food deficiency, and the primest spring lamb at Addington on Wednesday was bought at 40s 4d—fed on raw green foods in sunshine and fresh air. Vegetable life, and through it our food supply, comes directly from the dust, and is dependent on the soil for its existence. It is the link between animal life and the mineral. Inorganic minerals are not foods for animals or man. and only plant life, i.e,, vegetation, has the power to make them so. Vegetation is the foundation stone in the plan of all living things. Plants alone can manufacture food, and without them all life would end. How backward people are to recognise this tremendous truth! The magic fingers of plants, herbs, and trees are the only power known to man that can turn dead minerals into organic life, and as over-eating is the greatest universal sin it is quite wrong to think any certain food can restore health. Cut down on the whole intake and give Mother Nature, who is in supreme command, a chance to clean house.— Yours, etc,, . HENRY T. J. THACKER. August 6, 1937.