"BREAKFAST!"

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIV, Issue 185, 3 February 1912, Page 5

"BREAKFAST!"

"A DISEASE-PRODUCING HABITJ". »i| MR. LLOYD JONES ON FASTING. ' f J $ Breakfast after all is merely a habiMS One man has described it as a •diseag«.''J producing habit,'" so Mr..Lloyd of Wanganui, told a fair-sized in Whituey Hall last evening in his ad- >£ areas'' on "Health, now. to get at andW** how to keep it." , . { ?{ i Mr. Griffiths occupied the chair, aatl'V pertinently remarked tb&t many people-'® vljould not be called faddists if thay $5 enjoyed such excellent health aa Mri > Jones. ;„ff

> Mr. Jones, who was accorded an ex-s&j ' cellent hearing, said that the new gospt^fm I of health was not unlike the old gosWPg ' of religion; it took a lot of time* tIMSS spread. Continuing, he described the m-T&I cidental way'in which.he had happened'-^! 1 on the "no breakfast" plan. His' at-^ ' tention was first drawn by pamphlets';^ •■ and later on. his curiosity was fupther,sji excited through reading a book on thftj'H subject. The "Gospel" was started ii'#J America by Dr. Dervey, who practised^ it on his patients for 20 years, before it ',\S became known to the outside world $1 NATURE THE SUPREME HEALER. S,| , He realised the fundamental principle -'M that Nature was the supreme healer. V£| Curiously enough Dr. Dervey never, thought,of continuing the no breakfast ~M plan beyond the period of one's illness, 'iS until a patient who had benefited by the ''-$ treatment .suggested the idea to him.' Since then other doctors have got to 'A's **af of it. Some took it up, but the! majority of the profession did not ap» Lt '| prove of it. Fully twenty authors aM'^l written on the subject of his addrett^fl and although they might differ, in somerfl minor detail they were all agreed thaf*l the secret of health, good or bad, lies'ja" Si man's own hands. Dr. Perkins, of PMltf/i delphia, wrote that' the no break|a«t«| plan and fasting cure "strikes, me as.ihe'^S most important announcement since.* the'^S angels came to the world with the anr'^flj , nouncement of the birth of the Messiah." . "I OLD AGE— THE, ONE DISEASE. ' ''*■ Interesting, too, was the lecturer's 'ftS I own assertion that very few people krlM of old age, but rather of disease, whicn'fls they erroneously regarded as inevitable,'"Aft Disease was brought on by ignorance *tj [and improper health. Men should die -l of nothing but old age, and in Mtj.Ja Jones* opinion, it was possible by cut-' '?J tailing the labors of the "stomach :torM greatly increase atfd prolong the old age "§& period. It was important .to.note that 'v| the no breakfast idea did not' mean ill "filling up with little.snacks." Eating'f.^ should be confined to two m§als a day, '^J and if one could further restrict it 'to ';,s one and a half days all the better.' | .Breakfast was ,a ■ habit' of which it was ?* c 6 easy to rid oneself of as that oJ \*4 smoking. For the start one felt a sense M of something wanting, but it soon passed l '<m away, never to return. In any' case the "ij custom of having three meals a day was ''•s a modern one. Many of the Ancients 'M dispensed, history showed us, not with ''M one, but two of the quota. For instance, 'M the inhabitants of one time-honored city. sl| who were galled,upon to quarter Xerxes $5 were greatly relieved'to find that the it J famous general and his vast army only **& indulged in one meal a day. "Apart froaoi ."jf! limiting their amount of. food ■ people ,'bffl should endeavor to.desist from dnnk&jrHli at meals, a habit which diluted tfc'gwK&Jl trie fluid of the sv«tem«and hamperedH^tS digestion. The lecturer then went on 'ss to dispel a common theory that '| did not apply to the hardworkinir man. **sl "SLEEP NOT-BAT/'-: - - -rM The reason was (continued the IS speaker) that contrary, to the general*<1 opinion it had been proved that we did'."hs not get our strength from food" at all. ■ j3| He knew that to advance such medkal^'^ views wag terrible heresy, bat neyerthev-f|| less it wa« a fact. Sleep, not fboii, waa."*! tie fountain head of health. The fe*?'4S turer added that he did not ask .his v*«S audience to believe all these thinra'te- 7SI cause he spoke of iliem; what herrantadViSn them to do was to investigate for them-''!■ I »f| selves. As evidence of his contentioiv^&lf that fact did not make for health. Ofc&ffl Jones instanced how the digestion food was the first call on the bodfty^'ll powers. It therefore followed that the'^M less food a man ate the more strength..'^ he reserved for himself. As regardeW\ifl own case, he stated that he first «&•"".$« braced the gospel seven years ago. Prior m \Ss& to that he was a chronic sufferer froni' ; ",||| indigestion, liver complaints and the likav-' ®M and unfitted for s'trenuous exercise. NoV -')*s» adfiys he was able to indulge in tohg-^fli walks and his health was all that could'^H be desired. :$| A PANACEA OF ALL ILLS. ''M Dealing with what he described as the "m other branch of the gospel, Mr. Jone» ,$8 declared that fasting would cure nearly 'M every disease imaginable, providing the .4]3 treatment was commenced in reasonable aH time. Through its agency cancer was be- <«| nig cured in quite a number of cases/ .jf§ but the treatment was prevented from '.* H bemg universally accepted through the ! 'm attitude taken up bv the medical pro- *q| fesßion. Thev paid fasting in this con* *M nection no attention; for was it not -sl| unorthodox? The speaker proceeded to -itM cite the case of n woman who had been cured of cancer in the breast as the re- ,1?1| suit of 38'/, (lavs' fasting. Fasts varied M in length according to the acquirements. .-1 .rhe record was 73 days. It was essen- m tial. added Mr. Jones, that th« "fasting" patient must above all things be optimis- %> il tic. Too often the trouble vas that a'^l man got into his head that he had an -| incurable disease uml would not make '*B the necessary effort to effect 1 cure. In M regard to eases in which he had per- -'*| sonallv cnine in contact with he men- V s l tinned that of » Wanjra'iui man. who' S"3 was cured of diabetes and Bright's disease through a ,i2 daw-,' fast. Mr. y'9 Jones, who handled his suhiect in a lucid ''■-"tM manner, dealt with several other aspect* 7 M ofhisdoetvine, which he said was meeK.vfflß ing with increased support. .*rs9