“SPORTING GROUND FOR FADDISTS”

Sun (Auckland), Volume 1, Issue 116, 6 August 1927, Page 10

“SPORTING GROUND FOR FADDISTS”

PROBLEMS OF DIET DR. TEWSLEY’S LECTURE “I )lETARY is a sporting ground - I - , for Faddists. Among the warring protagonists one must walk warily, but the wisest course is to allow individually for individuals.” Thus Dr. C. H. Tewsrey opened his lecture on “How, When, and What to Eat” at the Leys Institute last evening. Dr. Tewsley said that the human body could be compared with a furnace. Fuel was burnt only in the presence of oxygen; if the fuel was excessive, the furnace became blocked; to induce combustion, ashes and cinders had to be removed, and if the oxygen was insufficient combustion was retarded. The human body could be likened to a furnace, and food was its fuel. After discoursing on food* values, and describing the digestive system and digestive processes, Dr. Tewsley made some general non-technical observations. “Food should be torn as by a dog,” he said, and chewed as by a “People endure the discomfort of indigestion,” he said, “rather than have their teeth cared for. They allow carious teeth to pour poison into the alimentary canal. There is one school which holds that cancer, even lower down, is caused through the poison from septic teeth.” He said that the choice of proper dietary had a certain relation to the climate in which people lived. In colder climates a greater quantity of fat was required. “The conservatism of John Bull is strange,” he said. “Here, in the sweltering Auckland heat at Christmas time .the same Christmas dinner is served as that in England. It is just custom, and people eat it because their forbears ate it.”