WHY PEOPLE WORRY

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVIII, Issue 3584, 8 January 1927, Page 4

WHY PEOPLE WORRY

“LARGELY BECAUSE OF BAD FOOD." “The Groat War hart one wonderful effect. It altered the face of two professions,” declared Sir William Arhnthnot Lane, in an address on “The New Health Society” at the fortnightly luncheon of (ho National Liberal Club, reports the Daily. Telegraph.. “People have become alive to the realities of life,” he went on, “and are no longer prepared to accept old ideas and dogmas, and this has changed the Church and the medical profession. People have begun to think and are disturbed to find different views being held by members of the profession. The vast majority of the disabilities and diseases from which we suffer are due simply to ignorance—(Hear, Hear) —and it is a sad thing to feel that the poor, unfortunate savage whom we pretend to pitv and on whom we inflict our creeds lives a more healthy life than we do. The native never gets cancer —the vilest of all complaints, which is decimating our people and increasing as we modify our food. Worry is the curse of civilisation, and it is largely due to bad food. Wihat we ought to do is to put people back on the land, where they ought to be.” (Hear, Hear). It was strange that while medical men were, supposed to teach people what they should eat there was nobody to teach them what to teach. Doctors generally told people to eat what they (the doctors) liked best. (Laughter). Within a very short while they hoped that some man of ample means would be able to put forward the money for a Chair of Dietetics in the University of London.

Holding up a roll which had been beside his plate, Sir Wfilliam, amid laughter, said:./ “The curse of our age is that we are provided with white bread. I did not eat mine. You can’t feed rats and mice on white bread, and yet you give it to your guests. I noticed that our distinguished chairman only drank water with his lunch. lam not at all sure that a little alcohol is not good for you. (Hear, Hear, and applause). I think in this vile climate of ours we want something to take the poor people out of their misery a little if nothing else. If you get them back to the land they would be happy and wouldn’t need to resort to artificial stimulants.” (Cheers).