WHAT NOT TO EAT

Evening Post, Volume CXI, Issue 79, 3 April 1926, Page 21

WHAT NOT TO EAT

"Eating to Abolish Disease." By J. ; E. Devereux. London: C. W. Daniel Company, Ltd. Mr. James Raymond Devereux, Christchurch,- makes a serious attempt to get man back to a diet of nuts, raw carrots, and other vegetables, and fruit. Thcf author leaves the reader wondering how he has continued to live in spite of the poisons he has been swallowing since his infancy up. "Arsenic, alcohol, tobacco, tea, .and white flour, for instance, are all men's poisons." This sentence will give an indication of tho extreme attitude Mr. Dovereur takes up,'states the London correspondent of "The Post," reviewing the book. He may be perfectly right in all.he saj's, but ono is tempted to ask: If we should imitate the orang outang in the method of eating' way should we not go still further and imitate the orangoutang in tho matter of clothing or lack of clothing? Why should we not live entirely in the open airl Why- should we compromise by eating dried fruit? That vegetarianism is increasing in England is evident from tho number of vegetarian shops and restaurants which are springing up. But even Mr. Eustace Miles seems to havo gond wrong. He has wisely abolished all flesh foods from his dietary, but is too much in favour of cooking. No, we must go further. We must give up fired food. Dead food is useless. No food that cannot.be ea'cn and relished, in its uncooked natural state is good food. We must abandon all flesh foods, potatoes, cereals, and pulse to obtain the best possible results. Mr. Doveroux points out: "We have no claws for tearing moat to pieces; we have no beaks for eating grains; wo aro not ruminants, as the cow; we have no aptitudo for diving into.-, the' water for fish; but we have got the hands, teeth, intestines, and instinct of the fruit and nut eaters." Mr. Devereux has crowded some 146 pages with vigorous damaging evidence against the ordinary diet of tho ordinary man. He has made out a good case for raw carrots and fruit and nuts. He may convert many to his way of thinking, and when the world is a little older it may see the light and set out to save itself.