MODERN LIFE.

Press, Volume LXI, Issue 18402, 8 June 1925, Page 9

MODERN LIFE.

; OVERDOSE OF STRUGGLE. i LORD DAWSON'S OPINION. (AUSTEAiUN AND N.Z. CABLE ASSOCIATION.) LONDON, June 5. Lord Dawson, in an address to American doctors at the conference, pointed out that modern life was really an overdose of struggle and was apt to produoe no strength but stress. It seems that the internal combustion engine or telephone and wireless wonders had outstripped Jman's power of adaptation, with the result that he is' so tuned up that he remained tuned up, even during his so-called play and leisure, the medical profession would have increasingly to become an educational body. They would be consulted on the nature of suitable employment, and they must not hesitate to tell a tense and anxious man that he must not become a signalman, nor must they allow a top-heavy girl, with a tendency to varicose veins, to become a waitress. By the judicious guidance of health during youth they would more and more be called on to direct the life of the people, although this could hot be accomplished by any card index system. The English-speaking Union gave a luncheon to American and Canadian doctors. _ .. „ , 3>r. Wood Hutchison, a. well-known American mrtlical writer, made a wholehearted appeal for a meat diet. Ho said there was hot a particle of evidence to support the old. nonsense that meat was bad for gout and the kidneys. Meat-eating races like New Zealanders, Australians, and Canadians had the lowest:death-rate in the world. People who lived on cereals had about ae much power to resist disease ae cows and rabbits. His eidvice was, eat plentv i){ butter and crearn, and anything full of vitamincs. Children do not want bread and butter, but butter ' -ind bread, and the more intelligent would lick the buttter off the bread.