"SCRIM" TALKS ON HEALTH

New Zealand Listener, Volume 5, Issue 130, 19 December 1941, Page 15

"SCRIM" TALKS ON HEALTH

sateen MS enath of a talk it is not the a that counts; it is what is in the talk. With this in mind, C. G. Scrimgeour, Controller of the Commercial Broadcasting Service, is making the health talks he is broadcasting from all CBS stations every morning from Monday to Saturday, of only three and a-half minutes’ duration, but he is packing them with hints, advice and useful anecdotes. Correct diet is the keynote, and before the series has gone very far the least diet-conscious listener should be realising that well-planned eating has a lot to do with general health. The talks are simple and make no attempt to present the subject in scientific language. At the same time, Mr. Scrimgeour has made extensive use of the findings of such scientists as Sir John Orr, author of the famous report

on standards of nutrition in England, Professor V. H. Mottram, Sir Robert Macarrison, and other well known physiologists, doctors, and dietitians. Seasonal advice about summer fruits and vegetables which are among the most important protective foods was given by Mr. Scrimgeour in a recent talk, and in another he offered a word of warning to those people who proudly claim that they have a "cast iron" digestion, and can eat anything they please. Mapoleon, he remarked, was one famous man who made such a boast in his youth, and yet at the age of 37 he was suffering from a severe gastric trouble from which he never recovered. Mr. Scrimgeour’s talks are on the air at 8.30 in the morning. They have started at 1ZB, 2ZB and 3ZB and will start from 4ZB on Monday, December 29 and from 2ZA on January 5: They ate now on the air every morning of the week. The work of collating the material for them was done by Kingsley Brady.