MAN EATS TOO MUCH.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 16986, 9 March 1923, Page 2

MAN EATS TOO MUCH.

LO-VDOX DOCTOR’S VIEWS. The daily bill of fare of the ordin ary middle rlaaa man would frighten ? fe' Jl ' k rhinoceros, declared Dr Ward Vii 1 nuns of Harley Street in a lecture before the Institute of Hygiene Ho described dietetic practices as quite mad. and said that all women had an atavistic tendency in feeding their men folk. "They think it makes them good tempered, which is the ex. act reverse of the. truth.” he asserted. ' Mothers stuff tood and mere food into that delicate little organ. the child’s stomach, which in a piteous en deavour to do its duty monopolises all the energy that is required for othe important, functions. Modern dietetic practices are not based upon physiology or any other kind o learning but upon a mumbojumbe of stupidity, shibboleths and Gluttony. We eat too much The charge may be more true in the case of men than women, but the fact thai women do not overeat is not. due to virtue hut to vanity When vanit> ceose? tc dnmma.te their lives, as it doec ot about 50. women make up v holeheartedly to the nleasures of tfa«3 table.” Dr W illiains said that greediness in babies was due to improper feeding, and he added that boys robbed apple orchards to obtain the' vifamine* lacking in their food. He disputed tlntheory that. English roast heel' produced boys of the bulldog breed. “ Man has lost his natural instincts and bowed his knee to the cooking sieve. The moment man took to rocking he began on the downward phvsi cal path. Cooking kills friendly mi

crobes and destroys vitamines. Joint chops and. steaks incite people to er move than they require.”