MUSSOLINI'S DIET.

Otautau Standard and Wallace County Chronicle, Volume XXVII, Issue 1319, 19 May 1931, Page 2

MUSSOLINI'S DIET.

5 At my talk with, Mussolini, 1 tremendously impressed with life atafc manner, his spare yet foiret-urHmtlcl; and the keenness of his expressive" eyes. He is so intensely alive— -very different from the average; . dreamy, ♦ sentimental Italian. The Dictator attributes his inexhaustable enerf y of mental and bodily power to his ab- ■ stemlous habits of food and drink. He 1 eats sparseljTat all 'times; If ."he 'if > obliged to attend a banquet, his plate ■ .is removed at the end -of' each course with, the f oo£{ untouched, in his qya home' he eats alone ? for the,'rule fhati ; to dg well, you must give ' your whole. attention to i\, applies also he maintains, ~p easing. When'pijc egts with other 'people, he said, one i« apl.tO eat wrongly, -\ , frankly admits to a liking for Wriational diet. He would enjoy a dish^ of macaroni, with its ric^ p. - matq sauce an<^ grated parm£§an ' cheese 5 but he 'considers that starc&f comestibles—in which category he inqludes bread, and all cakes, of whiph the average Italian is so fond— are. not suited to persons whose mental powert muse be ever on the alert, and who must be prepared to work for eighteen hours out of. the twenty-four. (Owing to his enactment, only wholemeal bread i» now permissible in Italy). Again, unlike most of his countrymen, he neither smokes nor drinks alobhol, coffee, or the now fashionable t&fc. Milk is his only beverage, of which tee takes four large glasses r daily., Ttite rest of his diet is made up mostly 1 ti fresh and cobked fruits and v.^jjfci tables.— From "Diet Differences % Europe," by Judge Henry frfeil (bf iH«. Uiiited State's' Legisl'ature) in* & February' issue of Health, " Lqrdoi^. ' . ■