CASE FOR MEAT.

Waikato Times, Volume 121, Issue 20266, 7 August 1937, Page 26 (Supplement)

CASE FOR MEAT.

HIGH BLOOD PRESSURE. Contrary to former belief, a liberal meat diet is not likely to bring about a condition of high blood pressure, jn the case of the Eskimos, notorious meat eaters, Dr. Levine, of Creighton University, found a general condition of low blood pressure. In a recent address to the American Congress of Physloal Therapy the doctor declared: —“The Eskimo as a rule has low blood pressure, and this is a direct refutation of the argument that excessive meaU eating has a tendency to produce high blood pressure. The Eskimo is a great, meat eater. The low blood pressure of the Eskimo bears out the findings of Stefansson, the great Arctic explorer, with reference to the healihfulness of meat eating. Eskimos on the average weigh less than white persons. It is only the clothes that give the Eskimo an appearance of obesity.” Modem science is constantly demonstrating the value of meat In the diet, and refuting the opinion that, there Is any injury in meat, eating. The wise and moderate use of meat is now universally held to be beneficial, in fact essential lo health.