HEALTH BY NEW METHODS

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXXIII, 1 July 1939, Page 7

HEALTH BY NEW METHODS

COMBATING DISEASE

Maureen Morris Price was accorded an enthusiastic hearing when she spoke in a most instructive manner for two hours on “The Glands and their Functions.” The hall was filled to overflowing. Mrs Price stated that “If you die from disease instead of old age. you commit suicide.” After living on orthodox and conventional foods in

her early years, she now bases her meals on an iron rule, that nothing should enter her body that has been in any way treated by man and machines. She also said that the socalled indispensable foods are man’s most stupid illusions. Nicotine and alcohol, which are scorned by the speaker, she described as slow poisons. After studying under such eminent people as Bernarr MacFadden. of New York, Sir Arbuthnot Lane, of London, England. Dr. Tilden. of Denver. Colorado. M’Coy of Los Angeles. Lindlhar, of Chicago, and Lust, of Miami. Florida, she claims to have no fanatical ideas about diet and exercise, but says people must rely on Nature Cure and

Correct Eating as the only methods by which they will achieve permanent benefits. Her theory is that the inherent power of life will restore the body to normal good health if selfpoisoning by preservatives, inorganic cooking powders, and most condiment and drug-containing beverages are omitted from meals. She advocates a radical dietax'y and says that disease is the "Body not at ease,” hence the word. She illustrates, that, just as a rolling ship steadies as soon as the rolling ceases, that is. when the sea calms, so will the body which is not in the condition of slowly and surely clean and rebuild itself when the cause has been removed. Wrong eating, she asserts, is self-poisoning and self-starving. Mrs Price also stated that New Zealand should lead the world in health education, as the splendid pioneering work of Sir Truby King laid the foun-

dation stone of such a world leadership in the science of eating. As she has lectured in every par f of the English speaking world, and studied in 27 different countries, her opinion about New Zealand’s being the most food conscious country will interest the

people of the Dominion. Mrs Price will again lecture on Monday night, 3rd July to men and women, Tuesday afternoon, 4th July to women only, and Thursday night, 6th July, to women only, in St. John's Methodist Hall, Hardy street. Large crowds are expected at these meetings, as her stay in Nelson is limited.