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Gisborne Times, Volume XXV, Issue 2069, 21 December 1907, Page 2 (Supplement)

Says a New York writer: —The fact that we are eating less meat, as a nation, is a tribute to our common-sense and a good thing for our health. We h ive lived all too long under ibis meat delusion in America. It is n->t so long ago that the steak or chop at breakfast was a usual sight : now it is a rarity at well-considered ini Its. Men’s luncheons are getting simple/, and the three-times-a-d ly meat i lea is rapidly changing for the ire.it-once-a-day rule. A. cirri >us fact is that men are clinging with gieater tenacity than arc women to the idea that meat more than t.nce a day is necessary for strength. Years ago nursing mothers exploded the idea for themselves; many a woman fount: that to eat meat three ti|iu-s a day did tjie child at tier breast mote harm ill in good: it made the chill restless and failed to g'vo lasting nourishment. And this latter po-iu, so ii.eiliitrovertihly proved by women, is what men cannot get through tntir heads. They confuse tne temporary energy that the -mting of melt gives them for strength, not lealizmg unit this energy burns out :n two or three lions and confers no lasting I-c-ne'U upon their system. The wise liiilc Japanese found out this truth centuries ago. and It is cndui t ly is marvellous, Some day the American man will fins! it opt. and when he eats less meat he will he better lor it,

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