"THE ART OF LIVING"

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXIII, Issue 22349, 21 February 1936, Page 4

"THE ART OF LIVING"

DIET AND HEALTH RESISTANCE TO DISEASE The need for simplicity in living was (stressed by Madame Lauri Alwyn at the first of a series of lectures given in the Lewis Eady Hall last night. Madame Alwyn said each individual yas responsible for his own health, and people had fo regulate their lives to be free of body consciousness and raise their resistance to disease. Lowered refeistance was responsible for ill-health. In speaking of foods, Madame Alwyn paid the food one ate affected the way one thought and that control of one's emotions was essential to normal living. The wrong food was responsible for irritability. The body was composed of 16 chemical elements, and if the chemical' condition of the blood was wrong, people were easily affected by moods. She urged the need to safeguard the coining years in every possible way and to keep the glands active. The most important recent dietetic discovery was that common salt was not necessary for existence, the speaker continued. The body manufactured the salt necessary from correct vegetables and food eaten. Another recent discovery was that cucumber was one of the few things that cleansed the largo colon. Contrary to belief, cucumber was not indigestible unless taken with bread, which was not an essential part of tho diet. " I suggest that people should worry more about the way bread is delivered unwrapped than about the quality of it," Madame Alwyn added. The potato'contained the 16 elements land was definitely not fattening if cooked and eaten with the skins on, tho speaker said. Potatoes cooked in their (jackets and eaten with plenty of butter were a perfect food and could be Jived on indefinitely. Madame Alwyn considered meat was taot as harmful as many people thought. She advised her audience to have one fresh meat meal a day up to the age of 40 as meat was non-poisonous and nonacid forming. The cereal foods, she said, left an acid ash and were often responsible for aching limbs.