MEDICAL VIEW
“JEWS MOST VIRILE NATION”
LONDON, December 10.
Dr (>. A. -Stephens, senior consulting physician at Cardigan Hospital, and an expert in heart disease, on his return from a world tour, including Australia and Now Zealand, in ,an article - in the paper Medical Officer, says .Jews are the most virile nation on earth owing to their strict choice of food.
He asks if publicists can suggest that tlu; Britih nation makes any approach to the Jewish standard of health. 'Hie Ministry of Health is unaljlo lo distinguish between the value of good fresh home-produced meat and that preserved from abroad.
“Our soldiers in wartime were overfed on frozen and preserved meats,” he adds. “Consequently they were toxined by by-products of indigestion, seriously lowering their vitality.”
Arguing in favour of simple, properly balanced diets, Dr Stephens says that China is the best-fed nation and Japan is the Lest: balanced in a dietary sense. “The sooner Britain introduces a dietary equally well balanced and as cheap as Japan’s the better it will be, so that our workers and fighters can compete with the Japanese on equal terms,” lie states.
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Hokitika Guardian, 13 December 1935, Page 3
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