HOW TO DEFY AGE

Hawera Star, Volume LI, 12 August 1931, Page 7

HOW TO DEFY AGE

i A LILT IN RELATION TO HEALTH. LECTURE AT WEJ-LIiNGTOiV. “If you know sufficient about your body you cum keep old ago at bay,’’ declared .Mr. ]{.. J. 'J’errv, of Auckland, in a lecture to a crowded audience at the Dominion Farmers’ Institute at "Wellington on Monday, reports the Dominion. The lecture, was delivered under the auspices of tlie Radiant Health Club, the president, Mr. 11. T. McLean, presiding. Jn speaking, of the importance of “Diet in Relation to Health.” the lecturer instanced the state of the inhabitants of the little isinful of .Bali, off the coast of Java, where a million, people, 7-> per cent, of whom were women, had lived for over a thousand years, .fairly radiating health. The people of Bali wore no clothes above the wait line; there was no mock modesty. Imt only innocence and health. I’nfortunately, into ■ tl}is Eden had come Chinese merchants, who had taught the inhabitants, to forsake their natural mode of living, /to reside in wooden houses, and cat, Hour and ground rice, with the result that tuberculosis was making its appearance. “These people of Bali,” said the lecturer, “are happier than you iu this room to-night. . They have no shops, no theatres; only health and sunshine.” The lecturer went on to give some advice on dieting. He declared that the excessive eating of lemons, and citrus fruits was most injurious to the human system, as they contained too much acid. The slogan. “An apple a d.-tv keeps the doctor away. 5 ’ he assert-

- ed. had only been invented as a pro- ■ pagauda by the citrus fruitgrower of i California. At the very thought of a I lemon, saliva changed from a good antiseptic and became alkaline. Human beings were not meant to eat fruit at all seasons of the year. Saliva, had an important action upon the starches in the body, and if people did not eat the right food their blood could not possibly be pure.