APPETITES AND CRANKINESS.

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 14, 1 February 1937, Page 6

APPETITES AND CRANKINESS.

Tbe "apple a day" precept for ''keeping tbe doctor away" was discnssed by Professor Y. H. Mottram at a conference of health visitors and scbool nurses at Bedford College. Professor Mottram, wbo is prdfessor of pbysiology in tbe University of London, and an autbority on dietetics, said tbat tbe advice was no longer favoured by research workers. "I like tbe advice very mucb," be said, "but in taking it 1 must admit I am taking something tbat is not so very mucb wortb while as a protectiVe food." Otber points from bis lecture wero — Ice cream for children — In America tbey give it after tbe patient comes round from tbe anaestbetic. Tbe stuff sold in this country is really milk fluffed up by air# I do not think it is ice-cream at all, Herrings — Poor people look on them as a mark of poverty. You must persuade them tbat tbey are a mark of aristocracy. Professor Mottram gave a general warning against telling tbe public, and particularly working-class motbers, about carbobydrates, fats, proteins and vitamins. "One of tbe great difficulties in studying dietetics is to keep oneself from becoming cranky,'' be said. Professor Mottram advocated a pint of milk a bead a day, and said tbat tbe public should eat more cbeese ,and watercress. Children should be allowed to consult tbeir own appetites.