OFFICER KILLED BY FOOD FADS.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 18053, 13 January 1927, Page 14

OFFICER KILLED BY FOOD FADS.

LIEUTENANT-COLONEL DIES OF STARVATION. (Special to the “Star.") LONDON, November 27. A story of how a lieutenant-colonel starved himself to death through the effect of reading books on dieting was told at an inquest at Crowhurst on Lieutenant-Colonel Felix Call, aged forty-three, of the Glebe Fruit Farm, Crowhurst, who died on Wednesday. Mrs Call said that her husband came home from India last May. lie looked ill and said his food disagreed with him. He read a lot of books on diet and would not eat animal food. Mrs Cramp, who was employed bv Lieutenant-Colon el Call, gave the following details of his meals: Breakfast: One orange and two grapes. Luncheon: One potato, half a lettuce or two or three raw cabbage leaves, one teaspoonful of raw scraped carrots, one teaspoonful of raw scraped beetroot, two drv biscuits and a little butter. He refused any other food. Dr R. D. Mile said LieutenantColonel Call refused to take an allround diet which was prescribed. Death was due to heart-failure following starvation. The Coroner said the starvation was self-imposed in the wrong opinion that it was the right thing to do. It was a peculiar and distorted view.