DOCTORS’ ORDERS

Evening Star, Issue 22464, 8 October 1936, Page 14

DOCTORS’ ORDERS

DIET TO ENSURE PERFECT NUTRITION BUT FORGOTTEN FOR B.H.A. DINNER “ Don’t do as I do—-do as 1 tell you,” might aptly be applied to the advice of the British Medical Association on the subject of a diet to ensure perfect nutrition. During July of this year the L.M.A. held its annual congress at Oxford, and therefrom emerged much advice to the public as to what they shall eat and drink if they would wish to enjoy long life and happiness. For example, a list of foodstuffs which, when properly combined in the diet, were known to ensure perfect nutrition, and a high grade of physical efficiency and health in human beings, was given by Majorgeneral Sir llobert M'Carrison, formerly of the Indian Medical Service. "The doctor’s list was as follows:—A good whole cereal grain or mixture of whole cereal grains, or-a good wholemeal bread; milk and the products of milk (butter, cheese, curds, buttermilk), eggs, green leaf vegetables, root vegetables (potatoes, carrots, etc), legumes (beans and peas), fruit, meat, water. But just look at the menu for the association’s annual dinner, held on the first evening of the congressCantaloup frappe, elixir de tortne au xeres, truite saumonee champcnoise, nid de foie gras a la gelee de Porto, coeur do laitue pluie d’or, volaille cn cototte perigourdine, pommes nouvelles a la menthe, petits pois frais au beurre d’lsigny. peche glacce princesse, corbeille de Mignardises, dessert, cafe.

And the wines were: Madeira. Niersteiner (1929), Beaujolais (1925), Medo.c Superieur (1926), vintage port.