A LONG SPAN

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 19840, 14 May 1927, Page 20 (Supplement)

A LONG SPAN

THE SIMPLE WAY SEEKING THE CENTURY Approximately 90 per cent, of our physical defects, disorders and diseases would appear to be preventable, and they are due in the main to faulty nutrition, lack of fresh air and exercise, stagnation of decomposing intestinal contents and other simple matters which may easily be corrected. Sir W.‘ Arbuthnot Lane, the eminent surgeon and President of the New Health Society, makes this statement in an introduction to 4 ‘Good Health and Happiness,” by Mr. J. Ellis Barker, published by John Murray. Mr. Barker’s remedy and prevention for disease is, broadly speaking, the simple life. His own daily routine is as follows: Rise every morning at six. Cold bath, drying with a hard, rough linen towel. Dress’ in thinnest clothes, a drink of cold water or of lemon juice and cold water, and a sharp walk of four to five miles. Breakfast: Bran porridge cold, with milk and salt or milk and mannite, or with stewed fruit and lemon juice. Coarse wholemeal bread with a lightlyboiled egg and a-little cheese. Fresh fruit or salad, a cup of luke-warm (half milk) or very weak tea. Work with his secretary, dictating while walking about, all the morning. Luncheon: Two or three coarse wholemeal biscuits. Very weak China tea with milk, or a little vegetables and fruit, or a piece of wholemeal bread and butter and salad, etc. Tea: Two or three cups of very weak tea. Dinner: Conservatively boiled vegetables and potatoes, either boiled in their skins and eaten without the skin or baked in their skins and eaten skins and all; an egg, sometimes soft cheese and butter, stewed or fresh fruit,'raw salading. etc. Bed at 11 p.m. Mr. Barker advises all who may wish to follow his example to proceed cautiously under the guidance of a competent doctor, experienced in dietetics. What a Bore! Bore (relating another of his exploits): "Out there, of course, a man uses his shooter. Well, I’d just picked up my shooter and— whlat do you j think?” Victim: "I know—you found you [hadn’t any peas!”