WHAT SHOULD WE EAT?

New Zealand Times, Volume LI, Issue 12016, 19 December 1924, Page 14

WHAT SHOULD WE EAT?

"Doctors declpre war on modern diet." —Newspaper headline. In days gone by, before I sought - My knowledge to complete, -‘ I didn't care much what I- ate So long as; I could eat. v : . ! But this I found grave dootors held A most pernicious oreed, : - - - “You cannot care too much," they said, "About the way you feed!".; :-: Said one, "Excess of sugar’s bad I"' A second, cried, "White bread Will breed a most degenerate race!" "Eat fruit!" another said. "Fruit !" sneered "What’s, a that :A manfs' strength Ho sustain!"’ i"Moat is the cause," explained a fifth. "Of-almost every pain!" In milk I thought I’d found a food Quite perfect, till ’ I read That if you drank the stuff unboiled You’d very soon he dead. While if you sterilised it -first The bacilli to kill. The vitamines expiring too. Its value fell to nil. And now it seems that all the things Llikeybest are taboo. - Pickles are* poison—sweets are worseSo what is one to do? Some races have died out, I know, i But here’s what "gets me heat’’— How millions managed to survive On nothing fit to eat ! —JANET READ