Department of Food Reform.

White Ribbon, Volume 9, Issue 98, 1 July 1903, Page 10

Department of Food Reform.

Miss May Yates, superintendent of the Food Reform Department of the World’s W.C.T.U., forwards her report, in which she says:—“ Avoidable errors in diet produce such an immense amount of disease that we may rest assured that if the people had pure air, pure water, and a proper supply of pure, nourishing food, almost all trie physical ills flesh is heir to would soon vanish away.” In the circular accompanying the report, Miss Yates writes: “ 1 especially desire to bring under your notice the fact that white bread and other artificial foods now largely used are deficient in brain and nerve food. “ Weakened brains and deteriorated nerve centres are especially liable to be attacked by the craving for alcoholic stimulants. Experience proves that the use of a vegetarian diet, combined with pure air and obedience to the other laws of life, naturally and effectually cure this terrible evil. “ Great results are often obtained by simple remedies, and women, by study* ing diet scientifically, taking the trouble to prepare the natural foods advocated by this department in a dainty, appetizing manner, and teaching obedience to the laws of health, ran help to remove the curse of drunkenness from our midst.”