WHAT SHALL WE EAT?

New Zealand Listener, Volume 1, Issue 10, 1 September 1939, Page 8

WHAT SHALL WE EAT?

diet as there is to-day, and never perhaps was there more confusion of instruction. Schools of thought, or perhaps it should be schools of eating, range from those who declare that all food should be uncooked up to those who say eat what you like and don’t worry your head about it. Meanwhile, despite the fact that this country has the best death rate in the world, health statistics are not reassuring. There is, for instance, our faulty teeth, and the prevalence of goitre. What then shall we do? The National Broadcasting Service has obtained from Dr. Elizabeth Bryson, a well-known Wellington doctor, what we believe will be a valuable guide. N aes was there so much interest in

This is a series of eight talks called "What Shall We Eat?" Dr. Bryson is no faddist. She is not going to advise people to live on nuts and grass. She believes in common sense, but she also believes in science. She believes that we’ve got a lot to learn from nature. She is not, however, one of those people who think that eating is a pure matter of science. She holds very firmly that eating is partly a social matter, and that good temper and a quiet mind are necessary aids to digestion. "The healthy person," she says, "is the person who enjoys his food." And there is such a thing as the fun of eating. You may gather from this that there will be entertainment as well as instruction in these talks of Dr. Bryson’s. They begin at 2YA on Fyeedey, September 5. =