The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-10-07
MODERATION IN FOOD
As HEALTH REs70RER
Eminent Briton Advises Against
Worry and Dieting to Curb
Death Rate.
New York Herald Special Gable Service. Copy.


right, 1906, by the New York Herald.
London, Oct. 6.-The appalling waste
of life, how hundreds Of thousands of
needless deaths and millions Of need
less eases Of illness might have been
prevented every year, were the sub
iects of discourse by two eminent medi-
cal men of London the other day.
Sir James Crichton Brown, while de-
livering an impressive warning to stu.
dents against the materialist school OF
philosophy, quoted some startling sta
! life by deaths from preventable dis
eases and predicted that in another
forty or fifty years mortality from pre-
ventable disease would have disap-
peared.
"'The aim, of many Psychologists is
to bring their science into line with
other material sciences,,' he said, by
showing that all physiological phenom-
| ena are but complex problems OF phys
ical and chemical nature. y $3.50
Determining their laws and meas
uring their constants by physical and
chemical methods, the new materialist:s
! have dissipated the phantom of Wis
taity, have left us plants and animals
as more or less complicated arranges
ments of proteid substances respond
ing in very simple way to the ordin |;
| try physical forces that we see around
us. They leave us for a brain a mass
of glue-iike substance nine tenths wa
ter, with little PHOSPHORUS thrown
in. traversed by waves - OF physical
forces, and nothing more. r. r.
Growing Mortality p b. .,
"Your object and aim will be to OBJ
viate the tendency to death: .syln 1904,
the last year for which returns are
available, there were 549,784 deaths IN
England. Of these very considerable;
proportion were what. might be calico
lives thrown away. In fact, the dept
to nature is -overpaid each year to the
extent of 100000 lives. The unnecess
sary leakage is still going on in al
Hof every 1000 born, AS perish
. within the first year of life. Mothers
as well as infants are needlessly sac
rifced. Tuberculosis still carries OF
10000 victims annually, but the NOR
ing the last three years and there ar
good grounds. for hoping it. will b.
Stamped out in another forty or fit.
, years.
"Never Diet,' He Says.
Taking as his text that prevention i
t better than cure, DR.. A. T. Schofield, a
l the opening series or the GRESHAM. ICY
lures, also referred to the enormou
number of premature deaths in tn
. United Kingdom every year. AS tn
5 ratio of illnesses to deaths was abou
thirty to one, there must be some 81
million unnecessary, preventable sic
beds in the same time. Worry an
anxiety about health were the sures
. way to disease. "a ~ ..s.-
I The great rule for the average ma
e was: "Keep up your weight and don
= worry' Palpitations and pain in G
s. near the heart might safely be ignore
:, at least in the vast majority Of case
d That organ was most difficult to il
jure. It could stand any reasonab]
n strain. Regard health, he advised
r with wise Indifference, and neve
l. "diet.'
e Moderation in food is all that
5. needed, not 'munching clubs,'' whel
IS forty bites per mouthful must /
: counted. Hostesses did their gues
y poor service when they pressed the
to eat once they were satisfied. 3
was happy to think that he had in IL
cases of several families stopped tt
intolerable blunder of spying upon tt
J. guest s plate.