Food And Health

Dominion, Volume 35, Issue 287, 2 September 1942, Page 6

Food And Health

Sir, —Dr. Muriel Bell in her interesting article on Potato Substitutes gives a wide scope, from apples, the ideal meat adjunct, to bread. We would be a healthier people if our medical advisers gave more advice on the right combination of foods. Man was a healthier being when he took for his breakfast a plate of porridge, a hunk of bread and butter with syrup or honey, than now, with stewed rhubarb, porridge, sausages or bacon and eggs, bread and butter and jam (a popular hotel breakfast menu.) Dr. Bell mentions that in normal times we as a people do not eat sufficient potatoes, and that on the continent three times the quantity per head are eaten: but she does not mention the fact that it is the custom there to make a separate dish with potatoes and not eat them with meat. We in New Zealand would not say “Thank-you” for a potato and onion pie without meat or partake of a simple meal' of roasted potatoes and buttered parsley or other potato and vegetable combinations, yet that is the correct way to eat potatoes.—l am, etc., “EAT FOR HEALTH.” Wellington, September 1.