SUNSHINE AND DIET

Sun (Auckland), Volume 1, Issue 58, 31 May 1927, Page 14

SUNSHINE AND DIET

HEALTH-GIVING RAYS VISITING AMERICAN’S OPINION rpo climb Mount Shasta, CaliA fornia’s highest peak, is no mean achievement. To ascend Shasta, however, on a diet of raisins is something of a feat. Mr. Clarke Irvine, American newspaperman and scenario writer, who is in Auckland just now, is enthusiastic on any matters pertaining to Health, diet and sunshine.

A FTER an adventurous career in x many parts of the world, Mr. Lrvine has of late been settled at Honolulu on the staff of the “Advertiser.” Previously, he was engaged in publicity work at Hollywood. That Hawaii is singularly blessed in the matter of sunshine, he says, is proved by the fact that many people go there from all parts of the Ameri can mainland to absorb and enjoy the greater quantity of ultra-violet light to be found there. The wide expanse of sea revivifies the air, and charges it with iodine, that much-needed organic chemical which prevents goitre and promotes general health. DOING THEIR DAILY There are a dozen mem at Waikiki, says Mr. Irvine, who come out daily, almost stripped, to sun themselves. They have been sufferers from various diseases, and have found that the Hawaiian sunshine cures them. One man who went to Hawaii last year with a terrible skin affliction which Eastern doctors failed to cure, completely recovered in the course of a few months. He went to a lonely spot on the island, stripped in an abandoned cove, and within a few weeks was well on the road to recovery. Each day he swam. Only raw foods were eaten, and he exercised and slept in the open. Mr. Irvine is firmly of the opinion that sunshine should be used more for infants and children for the prevention of disease. Before leaving New Zealand Mr. Irvine is taking a dumber of films depicting the different Dominion tourist attractions, which he proposes to screen in America. Rotorua will, of course, first engage the visitor’s attention.