THE CASE FOR MEAT

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 104, 19 May 1937, Page 15

THE CASE FOR MEAT

Not a Cause of High Blood Pressure Contrary to former belief, a liberal meat diet is not likely to bring about a condition of high blood pressure. In the case of the Eskimos, notorious meat eaters, Dr. Levine, of Creighton University, found a general condition of low blood pressure. In a recent address to the American Congress of Physical Therapy the doctor declared: — "The Eskimo as a rule has low blood pressure, and this is a direct refutation of the argument that excessive meat eating has a tendency to produce high blood pressure. The Eskimo is a great meat eater. Tho low blood pressure of the Eskimo bears out the findings of Stefansson, the great Arctic explorer, with reference to the healthfulness of meat eating. Eskimos on the average weigh less than white persons. It is only the clothes that give the Eskimo an appearance of obesity." Modern science is constantly demonstrating the value of meat in the diet, and refuting the opinion that thero is any injury in meat eating. The wise and moderate use of meat is now universally held to be benefieial, in fact essential to health.