New Zealand’s “Stupid Diet" Is Condemned
WELLINGTON, This Day (P.A.). —“I don’t object to children having sweets or cake, but they should have them at meal-time,” said Sir Thomas Hunter, who was the first director of the State School Dental Service, in criticising what he termed New Zealand’s “stupid diet” and diet habits in the course of an address at a graduation ceremony today at the State Dental Clinic. One habit, he condemned was overeating. “People today are living to eat, instead of eating to live,” he said. Gone, he added, was the prac-' tice of three meals a day. Six’ Thomas Hunter, in referring to the care of the teeth of two-year-olds, said some of the most important ingredients in food were being wasted. In bread, for instance, the most, important properties were milled out in the production of the white loaf, and sugar and rice were two other products similarly treated. He felt that the School Dental Service should devise a diet scheme to overcome the necessity for dental treatment of school children.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 17 August 1949, Page 4
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