A DIET SECRET

Te Awamutu Courier, Volume 53, Issue 3829, 4 November 1936, Page 3

A DIET SECRET

DR HAY WARNS AGAINST UNWISE MIXTURES. Both overweight, Dr William Howard Hay, of “Hay Diet” fame, and his wife arrived in London recently to spread then; diet doctrine. Mr Hay, aged 70, looks 45 and possesses an electrical vigour which he claims is due entirely to the fact that he “nevtr allows innocent protein to have any criminal relationship with carbohydrate.” Mrs Hay, auburn-haired, blue-eyed and powderless, confesses to being over 50, but looks 30. She ascribes her youthfulness to following her husband’s advice, but does not .diet. • “I’ve never really worrited about diet,” she said, “though I have always relied on my husband’s view about how food should be eaten.” Straight from Dr Hay’s lips, the biggest secret of his diet is that he doesn’t set out to “slim,” but to feed in a healthy way. “Provided you feed that way,” he says, “you’re bound to slim, or be normal in build.” In a nutshell, the rules are:— (1) Most people eat too much; therefore they should eat only when hungry. (2) Most people mix foods harmfully; therefore, never eat sugars and starches with other proteins or acid fruits. Eat what you like, but don’t eat it together with scientifically incompatible foods. Altogether this sounds simple, DiHay admits that it takes people months and years to adjust their systems to it. Writing in the “Daily Mail,” Margaret Lane says:— “Dr Hay regards as anathema such combinations as bread and butter with a boiled egg (starch with protein); fish with chips pudding with roast beef. TYPIST’S LUNCH. “Each item is splendid eaten separately or in a regulated place in the menu.” Dr Hay thinks that British puddings are too heavy. He is calm, phlegmatic and patient, and never eats except when hungry. “He finds that he rarely needs a meal before evening, but if hungry at an unconventional hour he eats all he wants. “Dr Hay’s Menu yesterady was:— “Breakfast: Nothing. “Lunch (when he couldn’t avoid it, as h(? was entertained by his publisher): Lettuce sdlad and milk. “Dinner: Clear vegetable soup, roast lamb with peas, carrots and green salad; dessert, apples. “An ideal lunch for a stenographer, says Dr Hay, is salad, a glass of milk and fruit, the proteins or starches being iu served until evening.”