SLIMMING DANGERS
EFFECT OF STARVATION DISEASE RESISTANCE REDUCED To slim vigorously without proper medical supervision is to court danger, said Sir Edmund Spriggs, a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians, at a National Fitness Campaign lecture.
“Although the body can go for long periods without proper nutrition,” he said, “its resistance to disease is, among other ills, considerably reduced, and the mental ability is affected.”
Starvation might give a feeling that the spirit was cleaner, free of the body,-and had escaped the desire for food. If such people did not die of starvation, hospital treatment was usually necessary to bring them back to health.
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Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume 50, Issue 3053, 21 March 1941, Page 2
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