"GIVE PATIENT WHAT HE WANTS"

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Volume 81, Issue 51, 23 November 1937, Page 4

"GIVE PATIENT WHAT HE WANTS"

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Auckland Doctor On Diet FADS AND FANCIES

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AUCKLAND, Last Night. In an address to the Auckland Rotary Club, Dr. A. F. Gwynne, the Auek land radiologist, said that a wise doctor asked his patient what he liked ancl let him have it. Ther® were very few exceptions to that rulm It was true that food might be reduced in quantity for a. time with advantage, but the experience of Gennany in the last threo years of the Great War was that twothirds of the average diet brought a decrease in mental and piiysical efficiency. Dealing with the essentials of diet. he said the ideal was to provide for complete restoration and maintenanco of the body tissues to promote growth in the young and to provide a sourea of energy. An adequate diet required properly balanced percentages of protein, fat and carbohydrates. A wido variety of foodstuffs was capable of meeting these requirements. Dietetic fads, however dogmatieally asserted, had no general application. The dictum "One man's food is another man's poison," was entirely sound and the axiom, "What is good for the goose is good for the gander," also applied to geese.