LONDONER EATS GRASS

Timaru Herald, Volume CXLVIII, Issue 21573, 8 February 1940, Page 4

LONDONER EATS GRASS

SAYS “IT KEEPS ME YOUNG” (Special—By Air Mall) LONDON, January 6. At least one Londoner is not worried by the prospects of food rationing. He is Mr J: R. B. Branson of Battersea, a 67-year-old retired lawyer. For three years he has eaten nothing but grass, from his lawn or from the bowling green, and raw vegetables. “The diet has rejuvenated me wonderfully,” he said this week. “I could bicycle 90 miles a day without any trouble. In the winter I keep my grass in boxes and eat it dried. They are my haystacks. At first I had to get accustomed to the unusual feel of grass in my mouth. But now I get along splendidly.” Mr Branson had just eaten a breakfast which consisted of “a bit of leek, a bit of turnip, some currants, some , rolled oats and a small handful of l grass cut from a nearby bowling i green,” all raw. : “The only trouble about rationing is I thdt I am fond of sugar and used it . to flavour my grass. But I have been i experimenting with vegetables and I ; find I can use chopped-up beetroot 1 and apples or pears to flavour it in- ’ stead.” Mr Branson said he considered that cooking took all the goodness out of vegetables. “I never eat anything cooked,” he added. “Occasionally in the evening I have a little cheese, but if I want to have a real meal I add a j few rblled oats to my vegetables.”