FRYING PAN ENEMY

Hokitika Guardian, 29 March 1930, Page 7

FRYING PAN ENEMY

DIGESTION AND ROMANCE

So had is the cooking of unsuitable iooil largeiy Dy lhat aeli loe of digestion (anu oi romance), thu flying pan, chat digestive troubles rank second in the list of ailments causing lost work, and thee are responsible for nearly oneuftli of the total loss. So declared Colonel I'. S. Lelean, Professor in Public Health at Edinburgh university, at tins British Social Hygiene School at Cambridge. It was estimated, he added that the average housewife could get X) per cent, better value for her food money if she had a little knowledge of simple dietetics. “The frying pan hakes and dries up food. While. it is true the frying pan

has cooked the Englishman’s breakfast for yearfe the Englishman has been suffering from had digestion. Sooner or later dietetics will have to he taught. r i -.•lifcVile, i.II-cooked food damages the workers, and hence the nation ; injures the mothers and hence the race. “Every girl miust know something about digestion, cooking, and dietetics,” lie added, “and every boy should know what to eat and why. It is somebody’s duty in the national interests to see that that instruction is included in thc-ir education. The infant is affected by diet before birth. Were expectant mothers properly fed while the teeth germs were forming, infants would stert h’fe with a chance of having good teeth. At present, however. nor cent, of the nrlk teeth are defeeti-/». an ignorance allows the result-e-nt tno’fhles to increase throughout We need a positive passion for

fit-n esq. One generation henlthib ivro’ir-ht no would nrobnhlv result ir such a is.ovmg on hospitals, doctors epd vnerbyipps n« to pny the cost sweenine our unhealthy slums awav. Colonel Lelean went on to deal witl +he bogey of draughts. Pleading fol better ventilation, he said that main people avoided an invigorating nip ol cold IWb air as if it were n- barbingor of death. “The drnundit’”yhe confln„„d. “m a nopular bocev,.- which like '•V.p rihlical hone, has slain its tens of thousands. We observed ?100 windows ;« (Tood-da.as F-fUnbu . ho’lises last T,ilv. Only one in 12 was .-open wide, lv and otdv one in five was’open at alb and thrne-rniarters of +heni.:were s+il 1 +in-hth- closed at n e’clocV’ ,on a fine ’vovtu morning. Tnclflcn+aßv;. the citv ever ■P c Oo.fioO a year on ‘eduention.’ ” ''Laughter''. Coming to defective eyesight, Colonel Lelean said that there were over 4,000,000 children and two out of three workers over the age of 40 with defective vision “Many might have hem saved by early treatment,” he said, “but nobody tells the parents, who. do not, bother and the defects are not found till it is too late.”

Colonel Lelean, referring to the visnnl IfatiVne caused bv evestrain. isaid that- of DOT n'v’idnn+c in three types of trade it was fornd that twice as manv

occ”''rerl at the end of the morning as at the begninning of the afternoon.