OVER-INDULGENCE.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 19199, 16 June 1924, Page 10

OVER-INDULGENCE.

TOO FOND OF OUR MEALS. FAMOUS ETONIANS’ CONFESSIONS. Dr Edward Lyttelton, the late head master n! Elen, declares that nearly all of ua aim rating too much. The famous Etonian is nearly 70 years of age, and the confessions he has just made Jo Kensington tnodical men concerning his own diet are of unusual interest. Dr Lyttelton has met many distinguished men. and lie quoted, according to the British Medical Journal, personal advice received from them on the subj.?< I of food and health. “The first thing that saved ray own health,” declared Dr Lyttelton, was hearing Mr Gladstone holding forth at the dinner table on Ihe need tor thorough chewing. I was old enough to see the force of what the great man said, and wise enough to practice it.” PLAIN LIVING—HIGH THINKING. When 27, Dr Lyttelton said he went to a theological college, where he had less food 1 h-ut he was accustomed to, but the diminished diet resulted in better health. Somebody told him of a saying of Archbishop Temple—a magnificent specimen of an old man, whoso vitality continued to an advanced age --''The older you get the less you want.” ”1 also came into touch with George Skene Keith, of Midlothian, who, at 7a, published his book, Fads of an Old Physician. Keith’s reasoning made me cat down my diet a good deal further." He now confined the daily eating of meat, to one small helping in the evening, and found a great improvement. DUKE FOR ALL ILLS. Dr Lyttelton said at 17 ho became a nonflesh caster, and for 15 years ate no fish either, until the exigencies of food supoly m the war led him to auate the rigour of this latter denial. The urst result of a vegetarian regime was the total disappearance of chronic lumbago, which, had troub.ed him for 25 years. Within six weeks of this change o' food the lumbago went; liability to sea-sickness also disappeared, his teeth ceased to decay, and the beet thing of all was the freshness with which he woke in the morning after <vnty six hours' Tho inference was that people were catnip tK Ice as much as they needed, but it was very difficult to tackle any man seriously on the subject; if done at ell U had to ne done in a jesting way. BOYS WILL BE BOYS. Excess ol* food consumption by boys wu* disastrous. Nineteen niotuers out of 2U» sensible in every other respect, encouraged their boys to believe that eeif-control in the matter cc food was not a necessity. Some 10 years ago the late Sir Malcolm Morris told him he had been able to «avc tho lives or I lie heciltn of hundreds or by giving them culy the advice to cut down their diet. _ Dr Lyttelton instanced one of hie fnende, a school master, who was accustomed to have eight meals a day, and was often in tho morning quite unfit to teach or even enter the school. NURSES “ASK FOR MORE,' Nui'ses at Inc institution _of the Elham Board of Guardians complain that rations which include TOlb of meat and Blb of fish per week for eight nurses with a pint af milk for each are insufficient.