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Wairarapa Times-Age, 16 November 1942, Page 5

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DON’T OVERDO DIET. SOME POINTS TO REMEMBER. iRv thp Health Department.) S comes to diet, insuttmiert knowledge can cause the best m e . in the world to go astray There are some people who reaso that if a certain article of food is for a nerson, then an excess SIX Sust be hotter. Thavs all wrong. Just because eggs, foi a nourishing, it doesn’t We consumption of abnormal quantities o eggs will turn you into a superman. S The same applies to butter and cieam. Overdoses of butter and cream in an effort to make an ailing chil merely result m makmg h chi c worse Eggs and cream and buttei aie excellenh but they must be used m moderation, and as part of a propellybdThen ttiere are people who have an almost fanatical faith in salads, and they feed them 'to their children to the exclusion of eggs and butter a ’ ld cr ®^ f All these articles are the foundations of any diet, but they must be sensibly used and sensibly supplemented by other foods. You often hear people elaborating on the value of roughage in the diet—that is, the use of raw foods. The use o* too much raw food, such as vegetables, is absurd, though a proportion is always advised by nutrition experts. After all. a human being isn’t like a cow. A cow has a complicated system of four stomachs, and herbivorous feeding for it is a full-time job. The human being has only- one stomach, and if put to work on an excess of roughage in the mistaken idea that it is doing good, there s going to be trouble. In all diet a proper balance is essential, and in New Zealand we have au the’things necessary to provide the proper balance.