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Evening Post, Volume CXI, Issue 138, 11 June 1926, Page 13

The Mornington branch of the Homo Economics Association at a recent meeting had a lecture from Miss Wells, dietitian at the Public Hospital, on food in relation to health. After explaining the various types of food, blic spoke of the protective value of foods, and especially of vitamines, the proofs of whose necessity to us could be obtained. In the East, where rice : the staple article of diet, beri-beri was very familiar among the coolie class who ate particularly white, polished rice; and scientists found that sufferers fed on natural brown rice were restored to health. In temperate climates deficiency in vitamines may be shown in general lack of tone, a feeling of being "run down" and liability to colds. Miss Wells then went on to define the different classes of vitamines. The need for proper feeding in regard to vitamines was shown during tho war, when children born normal in starvat'-u areas nevertheless soon became stunted and unhealthy. Miss Wells explained various diets, and then went on to say that many troubles of adults were often due to faulty feeding in childhood, and showed the harmful effect of excess consumption of sugar and of meat by some illuminating pr"ofs of how a high rate of consumption of sugar and a high incidence o: diabetes go together. She explained the good work done by the National Consumers' League in America in ensuring food made under clean and good conditions. The speaker then pointed out to the women present that the remedy for many grievances of the housewife lay in her own hands.