Facts and Fancies
AM glad that my congenital taste for fairy tales did not keep me.away from the A.C.E. Talk on "Fairy Tales About Food," for it dealt not so much with the fancies promulgated by the fairies at the bottom ©f the garden as with the myths bandied over back fences by old
wives, and young wives, too, for that matter. It is no use, apparently, refusing your pint of milk for the sake of a slim figure, and then eating a little piece of cake or chocolate which will contain more calories in a less worthy form. It
is no use holding your nose and swallowing raw egg when lightly-cooked egg is more digestible; or expecting beef tea to restore a wasted frame unless you eat up the solid beef as well. As for the "apple a day" legend, some of us have seen through that lately for ourselves, for since apples have been scarce we do not find more. doctors on the doorstep than usual; and this may be because we are taking plenty of milk and greens instead, or there may be other reasons. Yet the belief in the prophylactic value of chewing raw onions and garlic, which I had always vaguely brushed aside as pure superstition, turns out to be gaining scientific support.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 13, Issue 315, 6 July 1945, Page 9
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218Facts and Fancies New Zealand Listener, Volume 13, Issue 315, 6 July 1945, Page 9
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