THE FOOD TO EAT.

Hawera Star, Volume XLV, 10 July 1925, Page 8

THE FOOD TO EAT.

AND TIIE LIFE WE LJVI'

VOLTI IA N D ENTERTA INM ENT

In the course of an address on ‘ Social Mvgione and Responsibility or Parents/’’ delivered to Leith (Seotlamn Academy Parents' Association. .Dr. \\ . Robert -im. Edinburgh s Medical Oflicoi of Health, spoke'bf food values and the care of growing children. S,mp made from hones was supposed in he a sustaining article of diet, h was nothing of the kind, he said, snup was jus t. a - stimulant. whet he i made of hough or any other flesh. But if pern, barley, rice, beans, or lenlels were added to soitn. such articles provided the desirable body-building stances. Kverv medical man would tell them wo ate' too much, too often, and also that we consumed too much meat. Raw meat or under-done meat was much more monishing than that' which had been cooked io' an excessive degree. C' 1 1<*<*"-1• was 11soil i«*ir rno spar i iml.\ . While the importance of porridge | and milk in building up -the Scottish race might have been exaggerated, the passing' of the national dish was a mallei- of serious regret. Ham am| eggs, sausages, chops, ami -leak and such extravagant suh--tam-es in no way supplanted porridge, which was an easily-digested and tis-sue-forming food. Tie might be taken to task for saying so. but it was never.t holes- true flint tile bill of fare ot ma n v a working man s house in tins conin.rv was not only extravagant, but redundant. „ .Most of the ills to which the flesh Was heir could he traced to disorder of digest ion. The presou t-day tendency or attempt mg to work all day and pint at night by attending all. manner ot places of amusement was not conducive to the building up A! citizens. No hov or girl of growing age could possible expect to become healthy and vobn-i if. after toiling all day in polluted atmospheres, recourse wa s had to places of entertainment, where even more deleterious atmospheric conditions

prevailed. The desire to become men at a premature age became ingrained in the minds of many Ihi.v.s. who imagined lhat smoking was an evidence ol .manliness. Cigarette-smoking caused palpitation. indigestion and debility, especially so when excessive indulgence became a habit. Referring to the discussion ol sex problems, he held that the time for heating .about the. bus,h..tuul completely di.shppeai'ed. We. .could not:'afford to.lie prude-,..when..-the- social evil stared its in the late.