AS YOU WERE?
Sir,-I was interested and rather ase tonished to read Dr. Muriel Bell’s article "About Turn" in your issue of May 23, stressing the importance of animal protein, especially meat in the diet during pregnancy. My family of four have never ‘had any meat, before or after birth. They. were all excellent babies; they all gained weight much above average without any setbacks; as children they are now all much above aver-. age in size and weight. None of them has had a serious illness. In view of this experience over a period of 13 years, I would like to tell Dr. Bell, or any other doctor who feels inclined to "about turn," that whether or not meat is actually harmful, it is at least entirely unnecessary in the diet of an expectant mother, and to express the emphatic opinion that the advice given in the article, stressing generally the importance of animal protein and particularly meat, is wrong advice. If she should by any chance wish to verify the ‘statements in this letter my wife and I would be glad to have her do so.
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(Hillgrove).
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 17, Issue 420, 11 July 1947, Page 5
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190AS YOU WERE? New Zealand Listener, Volume 17, Issue 420, 11 July 1947, Page 5
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