Dr Thacker made interesting reference to the good value of fruit and vegetables at Christchurch the other day. " I know of nothing mare important." he said, " than fresh vegetables to every person who wishes to have a clear, healthy complexion and a good liver. People are ready enough to charge their disordered livers to the environment of this City of the Plains, but in reality their diet is much more to blame. The juice of the grape and the orange, the ehlorophyl of the cabbage and the cauliflower, the succulence of tho carrot and the turnip—all theso things are far more precious and wholesome to the human system than large, quantities of mutton, beef, fish., and the stronger foods,"
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Evening Star, Issue 13000, 20 December 1906, Page 6
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