FISH AS FOOD.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 6, Issue 1713, 18 June 1884, Page 3

FISH AS FOOD.

Sir Henry Thompson, in a lecture on " Fish as Food," after stating what are the chemical compounds and ot flesh forming elements of different kinds of food, said that it was a remarkable fact that fish, although an inhabitant of water, had only about 5 per cent, less of the flesh forming elements than had. animals roared on land, Different kinds of fish are, of course, less nutritious than others, but he places fish as an article of diet very high in the scale in comparison with any other kind of food. In fish there is a combination of all the elements that the human body requires under almost every phase of life, raqre especially to those who follow sedentry employment. To women, who generally lead a less active life than men, lish is au invaluable article of diet. The popular notion that fish increases the brain power is a complete fallacy. The only action fish; has on the brain is to put a man's body into proper relations with tho work ho has to do. Equally erroneous is it that the aged require greater and stronger nutriment than the young. On the contrary, they require a lighter diet, and fish to the aged is au important article of diet. In every caso he recommends a mixed diet. What he most strongly insists upon is that people in every class of life should eat more fish than they do now.