MEAT EATING WARRIORS.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXV, Issue 72, 2 April 1913, Page 4

MEAT EATING WARRIORS.

The Christchurch Press considers that one of the most staggering statements in connection with the Yaldhuret camp is that an average of 21b of meat per man per day was provided, and yet some men complained of not having enough. /This certainly looks as if either there was waste or the young New Zealander eats more meat than is good for him. The English Tommy gets alb of meat without hone per day, and appears to find it sufficient. ])r. Alexander Bryce, one of the leading authorities on Dietetics, informs us that members of the English middle classes eat 3Jlb of meat or its allies per head per week, while those of the upper classes eat close upon 61b. Doubtless this latter estimate includes waste, which is notoriously larger in the more well-to-do households, i The greatest meat-eating nation of the world is Australia, and in the opinion of Dr. Bryce, “it is probably more than a raCre coincidence thati this country has also the reputation of consuming per' head Wore 11 pills and potions for the relief of constipation than any other country in the world.” Other authorities attribute the prevalence of rheumatism in these colonies to the excessive amount of meat and tea consumed by its inhabitants.