Health in the Home

Southland Times, Issue 25303, 5 June 1935, Page 5

Health in the Home

(By a Family Doctor.) I was having a hurried lunch recently in a City restaurant when a young man with an extremely spotty face came in and sat at the next table. I was interested to see what he would eat. He started off with coffee, fato which he put several lumps of sugar, and two ham sandwiches almost entirely composed of bread. He followed this up with a large bun and two bars of chocolate—of course there was another cup of coffee and more sugar. Such was the meal which in ordinary circumstances should consist mainly of meat and vegetables—for him it was a daily orgy of bread and sugar, the “carbohydrates.” ( Now there is no doubt that excess of “carbohydrate”—bread, cake, sugar, jam, puddings, etc.—plays a large part in the causation of spots on the face, shoulders, etc., and yet it is extraordinary how people with spotted faces have a particular liking for these very foods. To cut out such articles from the diet is extraordinarily difficult; but in young people who value their faces at all ana have a tendency to spots it is well worth the efforts to cut these foods down and at least avoid eating unnecessary excesses of them.