CLUB LUNCHEON

Evening Post, Volume CXVII, Issue 62, 14 March 1934, Page 13

CLUB LUNCHEON

NEW HEALTH SOCIETY

The first event to take place- in the newly-decorated rooms of the Feminist Club, Sydney, recently, was a health luncheon as the forerunner of a series, states the "Sydney Morning Herald." The series constitutes a new luncheon service to be conducted in accordance with the ideas of the New Health Society, with which the Feminist Club is co-operating in an endeavour to encourage a correct course of dietry. The speaker at the initial luncheon was Mr. Figgis, vice-president of the New Health Society, whoso subject dealt principally with the value of milk as a food. "What we eat makes or mars," said Mr. Figgis in the course of his talk. That most ills that the flesh is heir to could be prevented if more milk were given to children was his dictum, and he urged his hearers that if they loved their children, their country, and their nation, to see that their children drank more milk. Frequently parents complained that their chiWrcn did not like milk, but they should bo made to like it. The comfort of a country depended more on the intake of food, said the speaker, than on any other consideration, and most tastes could be cultivated, even those that were not desirable. If correct nutrition were a habit from the age of one week till that of ninety there worild be few ailing people; less need for hoSJiitals, and more healthy people in the world, he said. Miss Doris Bates gave a brief address on the relation of food to health and beauty, emphasising the value of milk as a food, and also of salads—but salads without salt and vinegar." Salt she regarded as something to be eliminated from daily fare.