“STORED SUNLIGHT”

Greymouth Evening Star, 9 September 1927, Page 9

“STORED SUNLIGHT”

DRINKING MILK IN SUMMER. Thanks to many careful scientific researches it is now an established fact that the new grass of summer becumcs rich in “stored sunlight.” The grass possesses a power of absorbing sunlight as blotting-paper absorbs ink. The cattle fed on this grass become possessed of its virtue (writes the medical correspondent of the “Times Trade and Engineering Supplement”). The milk of these herds is therefore “rich” in a quality which is nearly absent from winter milk, and which as is now known plays a most important part in the strengthening of bodily resistance against disease. To drink milk in summer is, in fact, to imbibe sunlight. It is the next best thing to going out into the country and getting “a dose of the sun.” for oneself. How valuable such a food is can be judged from the fact that, by means of it, the power of the body to overcome the germs of disease is definitely raised. An idea prevails that milk is an unsatisfactory hot-weather drink. This is quite erroneous —provided always that the milk is fresh. But there is no objection to adding a little sodawater to the milk. This will not rob it of its valuable qualities. Nature has constituted her greatest food in such a manner that it serves every requirement of the organism. Not the least of the virtues of milk, indeed, during hots spells is the fact that it serves both as “mpat and drink.” A glass of milk taken at midday makes it possible to reduce the usual dimensions of the midday meal, and so give the digestive organs a rest at a moment when the atmosphere precludes efficient digestion. The truth is that there is imposed on each of us the necessity for laying up stores of health in summer to serve when the sun no longer shines. Milk affords one of the very best and very easiest ways of accomplishing this all-impor-tant task.