CAUSE OF OBESITY.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LV, Issue 244, 12 September 1935, Page 7

CAUSE OF OBESITY.

THEORIES UPSET. INJURY THROUGH NOISE. MELBOURNE, Sept. 11. Popular theories were upset at a meeting of the special medicine section of the British Medical Association congress to-day, when some of the world’s most eminent medical men decreed that obesity was not duo to over-eat-ing, that dieting was dangerous ill many cases of obesity, and that exercise was an over-rated element in treatment. Lord Horder presided. Professor C. G. Lanibie, Sydney, said that the beneficial effect on reducing weight by one game of squash racquets would be counteracted by a pint of beer or two cocktails.

Lord Horder and others were guests of the Melbourne Rotary Club, when Lord Horder, who is the founder of the London Anti-Noise League, was the speaker. He referred to the success of London’s hours of silence from 11.30 p.m. to 7 a.m., and said that the prohibition of the sounding of motor horns during that peri ml prevented, many accidents. He said: “Vested interests should not allow trams much longer. Noise and death go hand in hand. People should not bo submitted to the strain of something avoidable which is injurious to tlie human system.”