DIETETICS AND HEALTH.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 21054, 17 June 1930, Page 5

DIETETICS AND HEALTH.

LECTURE BY MR R, J. TERRY. The interest with which matters affecting the health of the individual are regarded was effectively demonstrated by the large audience which assembled in the' Y.M.C.A. last evening to hear Mr U. J. lorry deliver a lecture on food and its relation to health. Every available seat in the assembly hall was occupied, and a number of people was forced to stand, hor two hours and a-half Mr Terry held the attention of his listeners, while he discoursed on dietetics, and their effect on' the health of the individual when intelligently adopted.The speaker was introduced by Mr H. "I. Fowler, who spoke of the comraonsense methods which Mr Terry always advoGated, both in his addresses and in his written articles.

In the course of his lecture, Mr Terrv touched on a vast number of questions connected with the problems of food and digestion In hie opening remarks he stressed the point that much of the trouble which was being experienced by civilised people to-day in maintaining even a normal standard of health was due to the unnatural conditions under which modern society compelled man to live His mode of existence, hie choice and range of foods and hie methods of preparing them all tended to upset Nature s plan, often with disastrous results to the individual. Mr Terry then went on to show, illustrating his remarks by experiences which he had had in the course of his work as a dietitian, that the use of commousense in all matters relating to bodily welfare and an intelligent effort to return, as far as possible, to a diet sanctioned by the usage of Nature, would effectually combat much of the prevalent ill-health. He stated, however, that it was an utter impossibility to provide anything in the way of a standardised diet, because of the uncertainty of the human factor. The dietition had to study the individual, and ttjuld not possibly prescribe en tnas&e. Mr Terry also referred to tile importnnce of sunlight as a factor in attaining pertect health, a thing which he considered 60 per cent, of the people of New Zealand ought to possess. At the conclusion of his lecture. Mr ferry hunted anyone in the audience who desired enlightenment on any point touched on in his address to ask questions which- he would endeavour to answer. A large number of questions was put and answered satisfactorily. A hearty vote of thanks, proposed by Mr Fowler, was accorded the lecturer.