HOW TO HALVE OUR FOOD BILL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 166, 7 August 1909, Page 4

HOW TO HALVE OUR FOOD BILL.

CHEW MOKE. A striking letter on the food problem is sent to the Saturday Keview by Mr. E. Wake Cook.

"As the rise in the price of bread i? a very serious matter to millions of our people, it is time to rmind them that science has already shown us how we may. halve our food bills, increase oil' mental and physical el iciency, and gain more tile:u-ure from life. DIETETIC RIGHTEOUSNESS.

"It was left to a layman to prove thai the aiifhorities were at sea as to the light quantity of food needed to pro duee (lie best results. Hi* discovcrie>

■ live- -iiicc lieen verilicd by exhaustive •xperhnents by scientific men, who are >.ving i!- for the first time, a science >' Right Xutrition Edison, whose ■ lowers of wort make the Ordinan winking man' a comparative idler, give* lit. l I;e\ note whey, he savs of America 'he eiihnlrv i- :.iod-drunk!' Whei -vnrkiiia '.:'' ■-. rd -'. he takes twel\ nnees of food i (In v.

"The exhaustive of IV •essors Chittenden and Fisher, and o many medical men, show that he ;■ right, and that the minimum is thi optimum. Professor. Chittenden took n number of brain-workers, a squad o' soldiers, and a batch of trained athletes gradually reduced their food to litth wore than one-iliird of the usual qnan lity. and kept the hum at it for month.The results were surprising, anil mciitn. and physical efficiency were greatly in creased; the athletes were improved 1,0: • 21! tn 100 per cent. The most ~ij lilii'H.u .-ad amazing results can only ip described in medical works. This ■vsiein of Vlietetie righteousness' is '■reading rapidly in America and on the Continent, and is bringing, as Professoi William .lames says, an eciomic revoluiion of incalculable importance. EAT LESS, BUT EAT I MORE.

"The principles of this ami-fad sysem ean he put in a nutshell. One doetor puts it in a sentence. 'Eat less, but •at it more!' Eat Ihtlc more "than onehird of the usual quantity of proteid—that is, men', in,l ilie albuminous or 'waste-repair:.'::.' ""Is. The heat-pn> during or fin-" 'o i-.ls shnulil vary with the temperature, from the rice of the Oriental to :he )iU and fnU of tin Eskimo. In pes'- '•' 'h" uuiinlity shoiil be about one-half of that usually taken: the essentials a:. . tiladstunian ,thor Highness of nuisti-iitinn. and variety' 'he healthy Appetite being the trues ;iiide as to the holy's real needs. "It matters little what we eat so Ion? as we eat it rightly; that is, slowly i'nd when we have a' true: not a hahii .poetite: the earned appetite being the ideal. This rational and scientific sys Tin gives a new joy of life: a sense •I exhilaration and of well being; a mental - and physical alciim- that .■omes as a revelation to the nrdiuary eater. It costs absolutely nothing, nf.kes a great saving in food and doeton' lm!3. as it gives practical immunity , : r„ni many of the worst doctor-baffling liseases."