FOOD.

Press, Volume LX, Issue 18220, 3 November 1924, Page 11

FOOD.

TO THE EDITOR OF "THE PBZSS." Sir, —Thanks for inserting my letter without, a tap;. Monkev gland like all else to bo effective must be fresh and."quick." So now.for Colonel Mo Garrison's experiments regarding susceptibility to peer food in his own words. "Thirty-sis wild monkeys were captured in'the jungles of Madras and transported with the least possible delay to my laboratory in the hills at Coonor. They were in perfect health and full vigour—wild things usually are. I had in these animals perfectly neraal tissues to work on: a unique opportunity to observe the first clinical and pathologic effects on normal tissues of the agent—faulty diet—with which I was working. Each of these animals was placed in a separate cage and all were confined in the same animal room. . . Twelve cf them were fed on natural food (ivheaten bread, nu'lkground nuts, onion, butter, plantains a banana-like fruit and water), iho remaining twenty-four on food deficient in some cases in ' vitamines as well as _ iHbaJaneed- Others were fed on natural food in which the' living essences had been destroyed by. sterilisation. Those that were naturally fed remained free from intestinal disease: those that were fed-on deficient and ill-balanced food, and on sterilised food, developed, within a short time in the majority of cases, diarrhoea or acute dysentery (a disease involving the inflammation of the large intestine). Hero then is an unequivocal instance not only of the effect or. faulty for.d in inducing a specific disease, ' such as dysentery, hut of the protection against it that is afforded by a natural and well-balanced food. This is a complete proof that natural fcedino- maintains "Good Health'' and to-back this up in my next, if permitted I will cite Colonel McGarrison s experience of the Hunza peoplo who live in the extreme , north of India whose "unsophisticated" diet is of gram, fruit, vegetables,-a- certain amount of milk and butter and goat's meat on flesh days only: and whe never have the dyspeptic and colonic lamentations

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of highly civilised communities. Those happy prolific Hunza folk keep no dogs. Again with fhauks. —Yours, etc., HENRY T. J. THACKER, President Reform Food League. [Regard for our space obliges us. to take the Hunzas for granted.—Eel. "The Press."]