AIDS TO LONGEVITY
A Balkan Diet Bread, beans and cheese may be the road to longevity. Ravel Biskup, a young Czech doctor who lias spent two years studying the reasons for the long lives of peasants and shepherds of a Balkan district, came to the preliminary conclusion it had to do with uniform diets that for generations seem to have been especially suited to the people. In most eases bread and beans were the most important foods. Little meat was eaten and then only in winter. Cheese was found to be an important item, but little milk was consumed, and that mostly sour. Vegetables, especially peppers, tomatoes and onions, are eaten raw. Fruits and fats are avoided.
Eighty per cent, of the cases studied used alcohol, but in moderation.
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Dominion, Volume 31, Issue 142, 12 March 1938, Page 8 (Supplement)
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129AIDS TO LONGEVITY Dominion, Volume 31, Issue 142, 12 March 1938, Page 8 (Supplement)
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