CUT OUT A FEW OUNCES OF FOOD FROM THE MEAL

Star (Christchurch), Issue 18615, 17 November 1928, Page 28 (Supplement)

CUT OUT A FEW OUNCES OF FOOD FROM THE MEAL

OVER EATING CAUSES PREMATURE DECAY. (Issued by the New Health Society, London.) “I believe that a few ounces of food cut out of a meal may cause an absolute difference, not only to one s appearance, but to one s chances of long life. It is a queer thing that we have J a thousand anti-drinking societies, but } I do not know of one society pledged i •* I have always been very careful to 1 make a point of chewing my food with an energy which many people might reserve for a more spectacular process; but do people realise the enormous importance to health ol this chewing business? One point that probably escapes a lot of people is this —that if the food is properly masticated only half or three-quarters of the amount is required to produce the same energy and nutriment. There is no doubt that the reason why some people over-eat in order t<> avoid a sensation of emptiness is that they eat in so violent a hurry | that the food practically affords them •no sustenance whatever. As a result, they keep on increasing the quantities, and probably collapse before they are fifty ’’-From “How I Keep Young,” ; by'Miss Fannie Ward, the well-known actress, in the September issue of :* New ’ Health'.” Cereals and Civilised Man. “As in the course of thousands of years the civilisation of the white man

has spread, so the cultivation of the most valuable starch roots has declined, and the cultivation of the cereals has extended, until now civilised man relies mainly on wheat, oats, rye, rice and maize, with potatoes, arti- * chokes, etc., as a bad second. It is not suggested that native man did not use cereals. Undoubtedly some cereals formed an important part of his diet from the earliest times; but it is fundamental to observe that the • 1 most highly developed native races germinated their cereals before eating them. Thus, in the making of native beers from cereals, the seeds were germinated and afterwards cooked and eaten, and the beer drunk whilst it was \ bubbling with fresh fermentation. “ Thousands of years before they were . discovered by Europeans, the American y Indians were so treating maize. It is * obvious, therefore, that the cerealt starch consumed by such natives is in l a very different conditions from the condition of the cereal-starch as conthe cereals were not germinated, they were fresh-ground for the occasion—usually by the women.”-—From “ Man’s ’ Energy Foods,” by Ettie A. Rout, the ’ first instalment of which appears in the ’ September issue of “ New Health.” r Regular Medical Examination. We in England limit the systematic ' examination of our people to that of - the pilots of the Roval Air Force and 1 of civil aviation. That is done well and s efficiently. In the United States, where ' things of this kind are done more thor--1 oughly, every soldier, every sailor and » every member of their families is exa- '* mined systematically bv medical men - t who are specially trained for the purpose, and complete records are kept of 1 each person. v “ This system is being extended to the rest of the community, partly by the insurance societies, but also by the medical profession. f “In every American hospital a dei partment has been formed to which any

e doctor may* bring his patient for exam 5. ination at regular intervals, knowing r_ that he will obtain the most expert d knowledge available at cost price. This 3, has been received most warmly by the i- entire medical profession, and the number of people examined at intervals in n these hospitals runs into millions.” — e From “ Periodical Health Examina)f tion,” bv Sir W. Arbuthnot Lane, Bart., it C.B. r ‘ {Sound Teeth. e “ The expectant mother must parr. take of a proper diet in order to lay a d sound foundation for the child’s teeth, lS of which all the temporary and many of the permanent are, at birth, partie ally developed in the jaws. She should n consume plenty of milk, eggs, raw fruit : s and vegetables and wholemeal bread. ] Only thus can she provide the lime n necessary for the proper formation of e strong, healthy teeth. If this be done, not onlv will the child's teeth be proc . perlv developed, but her own will be v conserved—the adage, ' a tooth for 1 every child,’is a myth, if plenty of lime's producing foods be incorporated with e the diet. If this be not done, Nature e will extract the lime from the mother’s teeth, and they will become not only painful, but will decay.”—From ‘ Better Teeth for Better Health,” by J. Mcnzies Campbell. F.R.S.Edin., in the c September issue of ” New Health. >f Teething. “ The period during which d the teeth appear, which lasts on the cl average from about the seventh month e until the end of the second year, is one r- of those phases of growth and developd! ment which occur at intervals during a- i the c ycle of life from infancy to old n | age, and which are nearly always acr- I companied by some instability of the if I bodily functions, so that small events j produce very noticeable effects of diso | turbance.”—From ” Difficulties of V Teething," by Ethel Browning, M.D., e jn tiie September issue of " New Health.” •- Infection from the Laundry.— 'lt is y disconcerting to find that, even when

an epidemic is raging in a district, the * possibility that the disease is being s spread through the laundries seems to » be entirely overlooked by the local . health authorities. The process of thori oughly disinfecting all washing would - not prove expensive in comparison with - the security that this step would afford. In Germany there are in use machines which cheaply and satisfactorily disinfect washing bv fumigation in a vacuum chamber.”—From the Septem-1 ! ber issue of “New Health."