HEALTHY EATING

Radio Record, 17 June 1938, Page 34

HEALTHY EATING

Specially Contributed to the Health Supplement —

by

DR.

ULRIC

WILLIAMS

"PRE euther of this article, Dr. Ulric Williams, is one of the most distinguished and militant advocates of naturopathic methods in New Zeeland. His... unorthodox views expressed vigorously in the "Record" in ¢wo recent series of articles caused widespread attention and comment. in this article his advice on diet is clear and unequivocal.

HERE are three great essentials of right feeding--Moderation, Wise Choice, and Simplicity. Of these, wise choice must be considered the most important. It was not until comparatively recent years that man began, for profit’s sake, to refine and adulterate foods. Misdirected ingenuity has now been developed to stich lengths that disaster is overwhelming us. There are two great vital necessities in food without which the element, however attractive and satisfying, cannot sustain good health. There are the live elements, known as vitamins; and there ure seventeen mineral elements. which are Nature's building materials, If diet is deficient in any of these vital essentials, deiterioration results, Nature has concealed these essentials mostly in and close under the husks, skins, and outer cove: ings of grains, frnits, and vegetables. To discard these,

is yoluntarly to deprive ourselves of that wpon which we are utterly dependent for ood health and immunity Trom disease, V HITE flour is flour from Which the husk and

germ of the wheat has been artificially removed, But if is in the husk and germ of the grains that Nature has com: cealed the protective life elements. White flour is an almest dead refuse. Dead foods deal death, In the husk and gerin of grain are the Vitamins B and BF, the anti-paralysis and anti-sterility protectors, deficiency of which in onr diet (and therefore in our systems) leads to infantile paralysis, chronie acid poisoning, which is so widespread, and has a pronounced influence in predisposing to cancer, sterility and abortions. That, unfortunately, is not all. When = starch auil sugar are digested, absorbed, and burned up in our bodies. waste matter is left over, This is acid in character, and is highly poisonous. If any accumulates in the system, disease will result. To neutralise this insoluble waste and to facilitate its rapid elimination by the channels Nature provided for the purpose, alkaline minerals are required. These, also, are provided by Nature-in the husks and germ of the grains. So we throw these to the pigs, and attempt the impossible task of supporting healthy life on the acid producing, disease causing, dead starch that retnsins. Such foolishness may make good pigs; but it makes very bad human pbeings,

SO it goes on... . Deficiency of Vitamin A results in certain eye and skin troubles, tooth decay, and lower resistance to bacterial infection. Vitamin A is provided in green and yellow vegetables, in dairy products, and fish liver oil, in liver and eggs. Deficiency of Vitamin C results in scurvy. The gums swell and discharge pus, teeth loosen and _ fall out; and surface blood vessels rupture. The so-called ‘"pyorrhoea" is really only a form of scurvy, and is due to wrong food and deficiency of Vitamin C. "Trench mouth" is the same, Vitamin ( is particularly plentiful jn oranges and other citrus fruits: in tomatoes. and in lesser amounts in most fruits and vegetables, if eaten fresh or conseryitively cooked, OILING vegetables in considerable amounts of water to which soda and salt have been added destroys virtually the whole of the protective live elements Throwing che water away is simply rejecting the bulk of the essential

minerals dissolved out ml cooking. The best method of hoilins vegetables is) to tle ‘ach kind, cut up. but ner peeled. in grease-proof paper. like so many Christmas puddings, and boil them together

in a large sancepan or fish kettle. No water penetrates the paper, and no juices are lost. Vitamin D prevents rickets. If the supply is defective hones amd teeth are poorly developed, and decay early. The heart's action is affected. The principal source of Vitumin D is the action of suniight on the naked skin. fish liver 9ils, egg yolk, and salmon, sardines and herrings, IIERE are seventeen minerals, such as calcium, potarsium, iron, magnesium, used by Nature in the constriaction of living tissue and body fluids. They are continuaily being excreted, The only source of replacement is food. All refined foods are dangerously deficient in minerals. As soon as they are in short supply, deterioration results, ‘The majority of people still exist upon refined, denatured and fatally adulterated foods, or prepare food so stupidly as gravely to reduce nutritive value, Starch and sugar are the great calcium thieves, Excess protein poisons the whole system. To indulge is to render eyentual tragedy certain, This is bad enough when peanie are ignorant, but to continue unenlightened, is surely.a form of criminal lunacy. Yet literal mountains of Giseaseproducing rubbish are consumed, every day, by a disease ridden populace, (Continued on page 49.)

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Healthy Hating

(Continued from page 8+). HE quantity of food required to maintain good health is so very much less than is popularly supposed, that most people consume a tremendous excess. ‘They spend a good part. of their time loading their systems with unusable, and usually diseaseproducing, foodstuffs; and then spend most of the evening of their lives-and a large proportion of hardly-earned savings-in futile endeayours to get rid of the consequences, Cancer, diabetes, rheumatism, heart and kidney disorder, digestive ulcers, gall stones, "utarrh, deafness, hlindness, menta! disease, are some of these. WI acid and carboniferous waste that results from such piggishness plocks and clogs the whole system. Like a furnace that is never cleared, it refuses to work. The sodium-potas-sium and caleinm-phosphorus balance are upset, Vast deposits of refuse aceumulate. Fyvery cell contains its

quota. The very bodily conformation becomes distorted, often almost beyond recognition. Yet thousands of sick in much such condition are, again at exorbitant eost, "examined," "observed," and "investigated," to discover what mysterious "germ" has attacked them. When beneficent Nature asserts herself, and restores health by means of the reactions we call acute illnesses, the whole of the resources of modern s0ealled science are summoned and eyery possible effort made to suppress her kindly reactions. The more successfully we suppress acute illnesses, without adequate attention to the causes that brought them whout, the more effectually may we prevent Nature from protecting us from the eonsequenees of ignorance or neglect. There is little to fear. Those who live healthily seldom fall sick. And those who are sick will mostly recover, if they live healthily. Acute illnesses ure not diseases; they are Nature's euratiyve reactions against disease, They should be co-operated with, not feared.