DIETING FOR HEALTH

Matamata Record, Volume XIX, Issue 1693, 6 January 1936, Page 2

DIETING FOR HEALTH

NO LONGER A FAD It is not long since- dieting was regarded as a fad. ■ People who practised this form of madness were looked upon askance.- ' They were called cranks. No doubt, a good many of them 1 were, says an English writer. Cranks are responsible for the failure of many a sound principle. They carry the thing too far. But, with regard to diet, the most advanced medical opinion now embraces the theory that physical disorders are often traceable to faults of diet.

The human system is fed and vitalised through the blood. Impurities are absorbed into the blood unless certain corrective properties are present which nature supplies through food —the right food. Even nervous disorders are improved by dieting. This is not surprising when it is understood that “nerves” are a symptom and not a cause. When the blood is impure and lacking in certain nourishing elements, the ner-. VOUS system which it feeds becomes alike impoverished and undernourished. So again, diet is the. means through which, the missing properties can most easily and most naturally be supplied. ;• . : Unfortunately,’ Nature’s processes of recovery are slow. She works quietly, but with amazing zeal. Diet does not bring about sudden and dramatic cures. It is the means of slow and steady readjustments. ‘ The patient who resorts to diet for curative purposes must continue steadily with the cure for months. Too often we are impatient and tire unless immediate improvement is seen. That is the pity of it. Diet hardly ever gets a chance. Full of impatience, we hardly ever give it time to prove its worth as the panacea for most ills.

Abundance of fabric will be a high note in formal fashions for -the coming season. Gladys Swarthout, Paramount star in “Rose of the Rancho,” has included in her selections for her personal wardrobe a dramatic dinner gown -of metal cloth in tones of blue and gold. The skirt follows a very modern conception of the robe de style and in chic reverence to the animation of the lame, Miss Swarthout wears no jewels. Cairo, where serious riots have broken out, is the capital of modern Egypt, with a population of more than 1,000,000. It is situated on the Nile, 12 miles south of the head of the delta, and 148 miles from. Suez by rail. It extends over an area of about 10 square miles. Since the British occupation in 1882 improvements have multiplied thick and fast. It is to this occupation that Cairo owes its excellent water supply and drainage system. Fromerly the death rate was abnormally high owing to the prevalent insanitary conditions. Serious anti-British demonstrations occurred in 1919 and the military was forced to intervent to maintain order. Similar outbreaks have occurred at intervals ever since. Though there are industries in Cairo, such as cotton mills, the real commercial importance of the city rests in the fact that it is a depot for the transit of goods of [every variety from the Sudan, Upper Egypt, India, Persia, Asiatic Turkey, and also for many European manufacturers. The modern portion of Cairo, know as Ismailia, lies west of the Oriental part, near the banks of the Nile, and is built on the lines of European cities, in striking contrast *"0 the native quarter of the city, with its tortuous and narrow streets and overhanging houses. The naive quarter Jr noted for its mosques and min-, a rets.