OVER-EATING

Evening Post, Volume CXV, Issue 81, 6 April 1933, Page 6

OVER-EATING

CAUSE OF ILL HEALTH

DOCTOR^ WARNING (Special to "The Evening Post!'') v ' - AUCKLAND, April 5. _ The opinion that .over-eating was one of the principal causes of ill-health was expressed' by Sir Carrick. Eobertsoh during a lecture .on "Digestion." at Auckland. ' The speaker said that while small children were capable of dealing with excessive food, the digestive organs tired as life progressed and could not be expected to go on working day aud night until the end of life. The customary diet of a great many people, said Sir Carrick, consisted of an early morning cup of tea, breakfast of porridge, and bacon-and eggs, morning tea.''some tinio before- midday, luncheon, afternoon tea, dinner, and 'supper before going to bed. They thought they had to build up tho body to enable them to.carry on, forgetting that they put an undue strain on: the digestive system and its capacity to absorb all the food that was cateiu

"AYe talk about cups of tea, which we take ,befoi'e breakfast and at intervals during tho day, but that tea has mixed with it some milk and solne sugar, frequently two lumps;" said the lecturer. "Those two lumps, of sugar are equivalent to -4ft .of sugar-cane, so that really they alone form quite a meal.' AVe--take all- this extra food:(to keep our strength up,' as wo say,, but actually all it does is to build up' our reserves of fat, which we do not need. "To.Dr. Leonard AVilliams is attributed the remark, 'Moro-people have been floated into their coffins, by beef ten and milk than ever got there by the ravages of disease.': Few people today survive more .than tho.' traditional three-score years and ten,1 but if they lived in the way Nature intended they should live to bo 120.'.

"If you saw a post-riio'rtem' examination of a fat jinan," f.said.,'SirCarrick, "you would see the heart 'embedded in fat and you would wonder -.how the organ ever managed to carry on at all. At 40 or 50 years of ago most people have a feeling that they can do with less food, and: they are right. Certainly overy man who has put on a large abdominal contour can do with loss." '. -

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