INSOMNIA REMEDY

Hokitika Guardian, 12 April 1929, Page 7

INSOMNIA REMEDY

ACTOR’S FAST CURE. LONDON, March 5. Unknown to most of his friends, Mr Robert Loraine, the West End aclormanager, has just finished a month’s fast.

This most drastic of cures was a last desperate remedy against the insomnia 'Tom which lie lias been suffering for many years. Cures by semi-fasting are said to be very popular now in America, where doctors have eared hundreds of eases by a diet of fruit and water.

“ More people ought, to be told about the benefits to be derived from List ing,” said Mr Loraine yesterday. “1 have tried everything 'for insomnia, but this was what cured me. 1 now sleep soundly. The most diilieult pari of my fast was the first live or six days, when I was very hungry indeed, anft the only way of resisting the temptation to eat a hearty meal was by occupying my mind with copious exercise. After the fifth day, however, the appetite seems to go, and naturally the strain on the will-power becomes less.” I did not make up my mind to fast exactly for a month (Mr Loraine eontinned), but only to continue until my natural appetite returned—you see. after those trying five or six days at the beginning one does not ieel hungry at all.

Peally it is a cure worth trying. All the senses become sharper. You can see and hear things much clearer than ever before. Also you develop a sense of smell that you never realised you possessed. On about the 28th clay, however, I must confess to n feeling oi weakness.

My first meal wa not very elaborate —it was a small glass of orange juice. The second meal consisted of a largor glass. But my first real feat was next day, when I ate some pineapple. 1 continued on a limit diet, until I have now worked my way hack to a norma)