THIS RESTLESS AGE.

Gisborne Times, Volume LXVIII, Issue 10664, 14 August 1928, Page 2

THIS RESTLESS AGE.

NOISE, CLATTER, CHATTER. SIR G. NEWMAN’S HEALTH RULES. A striking survey uf “Tlie Foundations of National Health’ was given uy gir George. Newman, chief medical officer to. the Board of Education, '.ri the Hastings Popular Lecture in London. , . The importance of food in relation to health was given special attention by Sir George, who declared: Ignorance of a sensible dietary is the direct cause of much prevcntible disease, and more people suiter from sating too much than too little. Man’s diet should contain some proteins, such as occur in meat, fish, jnilk, bread, cheese, eggs, peas, beans, lentils; some fats, as m cream, butter, suet, lard, dripping, and olive oil; some carbohydrate, as in sugar, bread, potatoes, rice, and starchy foods.' The body also needs mineral salts (calcium, iodine, magnesium, sodium, U id potassium), contained in mule, •heese, eggs,. green vegetables, and fruit the last two furnishing a considerable bulk of fibrous material valuable in stimulating alimentary movement. - , Lastly,, there are certain substances essential for growth and nutrition known as vitamins, present in extremely minute quantity in various foods. BETTER THAN DRUGS. Variety, mixture, appetising cookcry, freshly prepared or natural food, the healthy conditions of sound digestion are essential things so often ignored. This is partly due to qui medical neglect or rational physiological feeding which is worth more than all the drugs on the market; partly to the vicious custom of the sedentary worker to combine an excessive consumption of unsuitable food with an entire lack of daily exercise; partly to ignorance and had habit. - Sir Geerge' outlined the following food rules: Strict and persistent moderation in diet tends to longevity, and excess tends to-early mortality. Tood should be masticated, should reach the stomach slowly, * and not too frequently. . No food should he taken between regular meals. Eating promiscuouslv gives the body no rest. ".A small quantity of beverage with the meal is desirable, but there should he no excess of alcohol alcohol is not in ordinary circumstances necessary to health; there should be as a rule no alcohol before meals or between meali>, and none for children'. ' No active exercise immediately after a meal. He continued: Most people stand in greater need of rest than of movement. Our American cousins and ourselves arc getting much too restless lor good health, or' even mental capacity and balance. . There is an excess of noise, clatter, chattering, and meaningless activities which have uo.value or virtue in themselves, and lor children are directly harmful..