Sin of Over-Eating.

Taranaki Daily News, 13 September 1935, Page 4

Sin of Over-Eating.

“Over-eating is the worst sin of modern life,” said Dr. P. Stanley Foster during an address given at Canterbury University College. The other extreme, “slimming,” also resulted often in severe illness from starvation or from a ruined digestive system. If “slimming” were really necessary—and it sometimes was necessary—the obvious thing to do was to eat foods that were not fatty. No harm could come from eating green foods, for instance, as long as enough was taken to keep up vitality.

America’s Problems. “The National Recovery Act in America, though it was a fine piece of legislation, ‘bit off more than it could chew,’ and its enforcing would need a system of policing 10 times as large as the United States Army,” said Mr. James J. Newman, an American business man at present visiting New Zealand. Stating that business was definitely improving in America, he considered nevertheless that the Recovery Act had not been able to secure administration of all its provisions, especially those which promised some mitigation of the antitrust laws passed during Theodore Roosevelt’s presidency.