ADAM AND EVE DIET.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 11685, 29 April 1916, Page 5

ADAM AND EVE DIET.

MRS DREW ON RAW FRUIT CURE | HIO.YIAHKAKLK (.1. A I.MS. Keeeiilly the " Westminster (ia/a't tr'' printed a small paragraph stating that, the article on "Food Poisons " which Mi's Drew had written would not appear in the " Nineteenth Century and After " before April. liehiiut that little announcement there is an interest in 12; .story to be old, For Mrs Drew, who is the '.'la 11 filler of the into Mr W. K. Gladstone._ is a '•disciple" of Mr William Aird, whose original views about diet are causing a good <]<?al of stir in certain quarters. Mr Aird believes thai, moo; bodily ills may be prevented or cured by a did: of uncooked fruit and vegetables. It has thus become the vogue among a number of those well known in society to live upon fruit and vegetable salads, in order to combat such physical troubles as arthritis, rheumatism, etc. Mrs Drew told the " Illustrated Sunday Herald" chat .she is experiencing certain benefit- from her Spartan diet. '• What led rue to undertake the treatment." she said, " was the fact that I had contracted arthritis of the hip joint, and doctors I consulted, ordered ine to try ;i different diet. There was a great deal of pain even when I was not moving. Every night, 1 would wake in pain, and I was becoming ready to try anything. Then, last December, a friend'who had heard of Mr Aird invited me to attend one of his lectures. I. was tremendously impressed with the evident sincerity 01 the man. "What he advocated he had experimented with upon hirnseif, with, he said, the best possible results, ••But the idea of living on fruit and vegetables alone, and these in an uncooked state, repelled me at first. 1 knew I should never have rhe moral courage to persevere with the treatment-, alone. So 1 went to the nursing home. Now I have returned home, considerably bettor, and all the / repose pain,' as it is called, has gone. I would describe it as a return to the natural diet which Adam and Eve took in the Garden of Eden. They ate what «« natural to them, and we hare to thank our departure from that food ior a gioat uiaiiv of our ills.' Mr Aird, who is a relative ol Su John Aird, claims to have about a thousand pvople on his register ol followers '' I commenced life as a weakling, sntferine on and off from many seriotidiseases up to the age of thirty-three.' he savs. " 1" am now forty-five, am new/ UIIOW what- it is to be m illhealth." ALL MEAT STOPPW) "1 began bv cutting off im-at." b< explained, "and eating all other onli narv forms of food. 1 found this 1. striction a\»s not sufficient. 1 inerea,e< in weidit, urew sleepy and disincline< ! for eNei-cise. h occurred to ni:> tlra i the mistake might be in the amoun I of food I. took. So 1 dec-reavd it. n:i less! ate the more energetic I became j 1 came to the coneiusinou thai thor I miet be some point al which oiw conf j arrive when one was taking the ngh I amount according to Nature's ivqinn--incuts. I tried fasting. i'or a fori niglit 1 ate. nothing, and at- the end <i that- period my energy was ssmpl bounding. Hut- 1 had become ver ' hnngrv/and had to commence eatin ■ again.' At once I felt less well, so determined to go direct to Nntui* an see -what she had to say. ! He watched the squirrels, rabbits an , other animals, and observed thar the •. ate natural food and took it uueooker • ••! tried fresh vegetables and I'll:t. he savs, ; ' alwavs raw. and they fi'le '' the bill.'' * .. To a representative of the " Simcla

Herald"' In; made the following suite-, men)- - ■ -. "Mv breakfast is :i fruit sa.aii. my, lunch a vegetable w.bd. K:ijip*?r is, another vegetabl.- :-alad. Altogether ■ tak-e i'rom twelve t.o MXIPfiH ounces per, (|:i,v. Now I .-.in in # i>erlcci h<-:iHli and have been lor year* " Id ils..-. inlpmcw with Mrs '>'■''" j l "' " Sunday Herald" :• -pr.-oiuMive as,.td lor her p-.'r.-onal numi:. " Well.'' wan (he answer. "1 u» ai'raid I'm jusl a little bit «)J a cheat. If 1 have a fruit salad I don't ;a':.- >t perfectly cold. I warm the plate jn-i. And if I have a vogeiable sakw! ! do sometimes pour a spoonful of whatever soup is on the table over ii. Otbor\vJm> I follow the rule. For breakfa-f, I have one hat) an a " | •' And is thai' <'iiotiif,h?'* •' I would prefer to Kay it is as much as I need. I grain that if T were U> see bacon, and eggs, marmalade land toast, L should propahiy want some. Jsut that would be my greed anil not my need- Then for lunch I have a voge-, table salad, with vinegar, a littk; lemon.; and either the purest olive, oil or nutj oil. Dinner would probably he more j vsalad. I won't say that I haven't had l a punched egg. Perhaps I have had two or three since I began the treatment. 13lit then, .you mint remember, I am only a young disciple yer. I hare, only been following Mr Aird lor about/ live weeks." A DOWXr.XG STHEiOT DJNN.BK. " What goes into the salad?" Mrs llrvw replied that there ;ire. (|intu forty possible vegetables. They include carruts, watercress, mustard' and cress, turnip.-, the heart of a cabbage. Jerusalem artichokes, lettuce and horseradish. '•lint how about the problem of dining _out?" was the la-'t question. " Well." was the answer, "it's not so ; difficult of solution as you might think. | To-night, for instance. 1 am dining ! ivith Mi- and Mis As-quit!) at Downing i Street. There is Mire to be a salad, so : 1 .shall lie all right.''