DIET AND HEALTH.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLIX, Issue 3888, 27 December 1928, Page 3

DIET AND HEALTH.

SYDNEY DOCTOR’S MAXIMS. Little Dr. Arthur, New South Wales’s picturesque Minister of Health, who is full of high ideals and aphorisms, and who has advanced more pet subjects and theories than any other politician in the Mother State, lias been putting into women’s heads ideas against which the married male .tribe will probably revolt. He says elderly and middle-aged m’en are digging their graves 'with their teeth. “My advice to the womenfolk,” he says, “is not to feed their husbands overmuch, if they want to keep them, but rather to starve them.” Dr. «Arthur visualises the time when one half of the people will be in hospital, and the other half waiting to take their places. One reason, he says, is that so many Australians have forgotten to walk; another reason is that they are eating wrong foods. The little doctor breaks out in a fresh place every time he speaks. An anthology of his speeches, under the caption, “The Maxims of a Medico,” would be interesting. When he is not advising the community to drink less beer and more milk, or to eat m'ore fruit, or to take moe care of their teeth, or not to stand up when-they can sit down, and not sit down when they can lie down, he is offering them other advice. In what lie says there is quite a fund of philosophic truth, although it is doubtful if Sydney put his precepts into practice. He says, for example, that many Australians have forgotten to walk. That is undeniably ti-ue of Sydney folk. To see people, and mostly young women and girls, get in a tram at one stop in

the city and alight two short stops away, is a common speotable.