STANDARD OF HEALTH
« JEWB MOST VIRILE NATION " NEED OF DIETARY REVISION LONDON. Deo. 6 Dr. G. A. Stephens, senior consulting physician at Cardigan Hospital, and an expert in heart disease, on his return from a world tour, inrlnrling Australia and New Zealand, in an article in the paper Medical Officer, says the Jews are the most virile nation on earth owing to their strict choioe of food.
lie asks if publicists can suggest that the British nation makes any approach to the Jewish 'standard of health. The Ministry of Health is unable to llistinguish "between the value of good fresh home-produced meat and that preserved from abroad.
"Our soldiers in wartime were overfed on frozen or 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 best 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," he states. - -
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXII, Issue 22287, 9 December 1935, Page 11
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