DIET AND HEALTH

Greymouth Evening Star, 27 June 1934, Page 2

DIET AND HEALTH

AMERICAN FASHIONS. “In America, the use ami study of dieting is up to the minute,’’ said Miss Elaine Joske, who arrived in Sydney recently after having completed a post-graduate course of dietotherapy pediatrics, medicine, and surgery at the Columbia Medical Centre Hospital in America. “In America,” she said in an interview given to the “Sydney Morning Herald,” the modern treatment of disease takes into consideration the value of diet, much more than it did some years ago. Nurses at the Columbia Medical Centre are trained to serve and prepare diets, and to value them according to calories, so that when a special diet is ordered the doctor knows it will be carried out Io the detail. Dieting for obesity is an accepted method of treatment, and patients coming into the Columbia j Medical Centre who are overweight , are automatically put upon a. diet to j

reduce, superfluous flesh being considered harmful to health.”

I One practice in the hospital that I interested Miss Joske ver ymuch was the training of diebetic children from seven years of age to understand their own diets. In some of the hospitals there the children are even trained to give themselves hypodermic injections of insulin. They are also taught to safeguard themselves from insulin shock by carrying in thei pockets a piece of sugar or candy, which, it eaten when the shock is felt, counteracts the insulin.

Miss Joske will be perhaps the last Australian nurse recognised by New York State, because, she explains it, “they are shutting down on foreigners,” and incidental iy they do not consider the Australian standard of education sufficiently high.