CARE IN HUMAN DIET

Feilding Star, Volume 9, Issue 3850, 5 October 1932, Page 5

CARE IN HUMAN DIET

LESSONS FROM FARMERS SCIENCE APPLIED WITH STOCK “If the average human being “knew as much about tho feeding of himself and his children as the average fainter knows about tli.v of his stock and especially about (be requisite ratio of protein (o starch, in a. wellbalanced ratoon, the average, .standard of human health and physical energy would be at least 33 l ,er 00,1 1 higher than it. is,” said Lord Rledidce when delivering the Cawthron Lecture in Nelson. “Probably a.s much «s 50 per cent of the therapeutic activities of physicians, druggists »!i<l clinics is referable directly or i.ml ieerlly to the avoidable dietetic indiscretions based on ignorance of the fundnircnral principles of - animal inuCri|tiom,” said his Excellency. Ho was tempted to make (his passing comment when referring to the beneficent wn r k of tile Plunket Satiety.