NATURE'S WAY TO HEALTH

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 194, 2 September 1937, Page 6

NATURE'S WAY TO HEALTH

Addresses by Sister Evans Speaking at the Ritz tea-rooms yesterday afternoon, Sister Evaus, the visiting health lecturer said that we ueed to return to Mothei; Nature to solve our health problems, for presentday results shovved that our own work-ing-out of the problem was not correct. To-day, hospitals were full to overflowing. We heard a lot about disease, operations, etc. But it was the study of how to iive healthy lives that was required to-day more than the study of disease. It was the blood that contained the material for every tissue of the body, that supplied nutriment to every orgau, enabling it to perform its individual function. It Avas • indeed a microcosm able to supply every possible want to the body. The mineral content of our fruit and vegetables depended on the nature of the sojl and climatio conditious. Today our soil was overworked, impoverished and denatured, with the result that our vegetables were sick vegetables, aud threc-quarters of the people were sicjc. Biochemistry sought to ascertain wliat salts of the blood were lacking, and supplied tkem in jiist the form ueecjed, Any disturbance in the motion of these cell-sults in livtng tissue, constituting disease, could be rectified and the equilibrium re-established by administering the -same salt in small quantities. When a plant drooped for water or for some fertilising material which was necessary for its growth, and whicli was a constituent of the plant, we knew that if the lacking materials were supplied,' it would revive and bloom againl It was the same with the human system. It was composcd of certain materials, and if they becomo deficient in quantity or disturbed in molicular motion, disease and death were the resiilfc. To restore the system to its normal healthy condition it was only necessary to supply the definient material in a form which could be used by the blood. This could be done with biochemistry which was the chemistry of life. To-night, at the Ritz tea-rooms, Sister Evans will give an address ou "Astrolqgg as a Guid® to Health)." j