Temperance Notes.

Te Aroha News, Volume XVII, Issue 22514, 29 March 1902, Page 1

Temperance Notes.

[By Reformer, j

A DIETETIC AUTHORITY <M

DRINKS.

In last week's issue of “ Cassell's Saturday Journal” there is an interest* ing and Jfcstructive chat on the food we with Dr. Yorke-Davis, of Hurley-st., London, * ‘the first authority on'diet in this Having declared that people as a rule oat far lo much, ho gave the following reply lo a question as to what he would say was a good diet:—“A strong healthy man can subsist on pretty well anything. Some people could eat, figuratively speaking, two-inch nails and faro well on them. But, as I have obseryed, we differ so materially that no hard and fast rule can bo laid down.. The iudividual who works with his brains requires forms of food quite different from those which are imperative to a man who labours with his hands. A brain-worker should haveplenty of soup, fish, meat, green vegetables, and fruit. Stimulants he should seldom touch. lam not n teetotaler, but I must admit that alcohol is not necessary toman. It is not fattening; Beer is nourishing because it contains' s arch and sugar, and wine because there is sugar in it; but in spirits there' are no nutritive qualities whatsoever.” Again this high atthority says: As for drinks, the best is pure water—when jou can get it,, which is not often. Lemonade- and ginger beer are not to' r?comm©nded in the hbight of summer, as the BUgar in them raisos the ternperaturo. To tea, coffee, and soda 1 water thoro is no objection.”