RUSSIAN WOMAN EATS NO SOLIDS: LIVES ON JUICES

Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 14, Issue 18, 29 July 1949, Page 7

RUSSIAN WOMAN EATS NO SOLIDS: LIVES ON JUICES

When Russian-born Mrs B. MoorePateleewa, of Kensington, London, collects her new ration book she astonishes the food office staff by getting them to stamp the . word “cancelled” over it. For Mrs MoorePateleewa does not eat. She claims to have found the an, swer to the world food shortage. It

is simply to cut out 90 per cent of the food that convention and civilisation have put on our plates. And this, she says, gives perpetual youth and vigour in a greatly increased span of life.

Mrs Moore aims at living to be 150 at least, staying young all the time. She is now 46, looks hardly 35. She believes that the process of ageing has already stopped in her. For 14 years she has been experimenting with diets; it is nearly two years since she swallowed anything more solid than a spoonful of honey. She now lives on juices alone. Her daily intake 'varies from two to four tumblersful, extracted from raw tomatoes, oranges, grasses and herbs.

Mrs Moore first tried living on grass, herbs, wild vegetation, fruits and nuts, when she was a student at Saratov Medical School on the Volga after the Russian revolution. Mrs Moore was the • champion motor cyclist of Russia in 1932. Two years later she rode her motor cycle from Russia to England, and in 1936 she motor cycled from England to India. There,in the Himalayas, she met men and women well over 100 who “looked 35, and were even growing second sets of teeth.”

In 1936 she returned to England, met and married her British husband Harry Moore, painter and sculptor. He was an orthodox vegetarian. Now he takes two square meals a day, but nothing cooked. Last year in Switzerland she fasted 52 days on mountain air; this year she proposes to fast for at least 60 days. The Treasury gave her an allowance because she is putting her dietetic researches into a book • —How to be young at 150—which should be a dollar earner.

The idea of her long fasts is to discover whether the body can derive all the nourishment it needs from sun and air' alone.

She asserts that it is impossible for her to get ill or fall a victim to any infection.