CYCLIST’S LONG RIDE

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LIX, Issue 17957, 8 December 1932, Page 3

CYCLIST’S LONG RIDE

VEGETARIAN DIET FRUIT AND DANDELION LEAVES On a diet red ricJed almost entirely to fruit, wild raspberries, au-l occasional lan lie;; <4 dandelion leav: Jack Burrows, a young resident of Manly, New Sonfcli Wales, r.’really completed a 630 miles’ 1 rip by bicycle from Sydney to Brisbane. Though laden with a pack wcigliiiig about- 401!) he c vered i lie distance in 10 days. .Bronzed am! lean. Burrows is a splendid advertisement for the liealtli-giving qualities of fruit and uncooked vegetable :: as a form of diet. He adopted it about three years ago following bis retirement from the navy. He does not drink much water, and indulges only on rare occasions in a glass of milk. Cn tile long journey to Brisbane lie. ate sparingly. Passion fruit and papaws comprised Ids principal diet at first, ami later lie oomph?!ed two stages _of 50 miles each on. wild gooseberries and raspberries he found in the busli. Ilis fastest day’s travel, lie, claims, was traversed on Hie nourishment obtained from three-lemons, a. cup of milk, and a few dandelion leaves. On, the final stage be bad for breakfast two cups ol milk, and for liineh a cup of milk and six tomatoes. lie diet, be states, has given biro improved stamina, and made him impervious to all the commonplace physical ailments. Recently in Sydney lie lived for three months wholly on water cress, and then ran 10 miles without teeling

the slightest distress. Biotows intends to continue bis lour to Cairns and then return to Svduev.