PROPER DIET

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XVII, 26 September 1927, Page 8

PROPER DIET

NUTRITION INCREASES

VITALITY HIGH HEALTH EFFICIENCY. PROVED BY EXPERIMENTS. Recent researches indicate that an improvement in diet will delay sen ility and give to the average man a longer life of efficiency and of increased value to society according to Dr. H. C. Sherman, of Columbia University. Dr. Sheripan also claims that better nutrition could extend the mature life of human beings in both its earlier and later stages. “Where the hujnan race now produces one individual like the late Dr. Eliot of Harvard,” Dr. Sherman stated, “practice of good nutrition may bring a thousand tato being. Differences in the length of life of experimental animals caused bv ini provement in the diet have proved definitely that mature life in humans can be extended both bv hastening maturity and delaying senility. To Sood nutrition, broadly construed, ’r. Eliot very largely attributed rhe vitality of his advancing years, the fact that he retained the vigour of middle life to an age when most men, if still living, are senile. “Recent reasearch has fully estab lished the fact, not generally realised, but probably of far-reaching significance and great promise for the future, that the chemistry of nutrition need not, as it has thus far tended to do, make the finding of the essentials of adequate nutrition the goal, and stop there as if we could go no further, for now it appears that what wo have accepted as adequate may be improved by giving more prominent place in the diet to the right articles or types of food. “What may we reasonably hope that this may mean fo rthe future of the human' race? Not necessarily the production of individuals superior to any yet known, but rather the production of a larger proportios of the people of the high health, vitality and efficiency which only the most fortunate now enjoy; and added to that the maintenance of each person’s maximum of efficiency and happiness over a much longer period of years, and increasedlongevity attained by materially extending that part of each man's life which is worth most both to himself and the world.”