Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1926-05-19
Health Talks Enjoyed
By Large Audience

by Large Audience
There was large and enthusiastic
audience on Monday evening at the
Community House in Skowhegan to
hear DR.. William Howard Hay and
George E. Harter lecture on food in
it's relation to health. Both men are
experts in their own profession. DR..
Hay is physician in Buffalo. N. Y,
and Mr.. Harter as a chemist in Toll
edo, Ohio, who after long experience
in food chemistry has founded the
Defensive League of America.
This organization Is made up of
chemists and physicians who are
progressive in their ideas and who
believe, that both professions should
work to prevent disease rather than
to cure only it's ravages of in teeth
or body. Hence we would expect
radical ideas and some startling
statement as to what can be done
with proper selection, proportion,
and combinations of our common
foods" the slogan of the League.
Bulletins which are published and
sent monthly to members. The chair
! man of the meeting at the Commu-
| nifty House was DIR. Sheeha from
Rumford Falls, who came through
bad roads to hear again Mr.. Harter
who had spoken so convincing to the
dental organization two years ago
| at Augusta, and from which talk the
League made members here and
| throughout Maine. 1t was due to the
| enthusiasm and generosity of some
of the Skowhegan members that the
expenses of these two men were paid
to come to give freely to the public
| tn valuable suggestions that were
given last evening, to those who
came to hear them.
| Incidentally Mr.. Harter gave as his
| reason for his belief in food as a
curative measure, that he had IS
years ago been given up to blindness
and premature death, both of which
he had prevented by an immediate
and radical change of food habits.
DR.. Hay to, had practised medicine
| along conservative lines until con-
| WINGED there was q more rational
method to be held, and he has since
then contributed to the medical pro-
| fession an example of cures made
by fasting and what is called detoxi-
cation, another name for cleaning
out the clogged body.
Both men gave good and convinv-
ing reasons for eating large amounts
of fruits and vegetables in proper
ton to small amounts of meats
| breads and cereal foods. A quick
and radical change in these proper
tions are proof in themselves because
Of results of results in better health
Another radical suggestion well
backed by results is that starches in
bread cereals do not digest with
meats, fish, cheese, etc, hence should
not be eaten at the same meal.
After having been a member of the
league and having heard these ex-
| perts tell the will. the ways and
wherefore, it is no longer strange to
hear the starch or meat meal or fruit
and milk breakfast spoken of as
we'll proven combinations for family
meals. and it is to make better fam
lilies and better young people that
such ideas are given to the public
by such men as DIR. Hay and Mr.
Hunter and many facous physicians
now cooperating with the League
Among the friends from away who
came to the evening lecture were
Mr.. and Mrs. Ivan Prince and Mrs
c. A. Plumley, of Portland; Dr. and
Mrs. Dyer and Dr. and Mrs. E. A
Sheeha, Of Rumford CDR Sheehe is
Dental State Chairman of the De-
fensive Diet League; DIR. Smith, OF
| Norridewock; DR.. La Ford and
friends, from Lewistown; Miss Eliza
beth Moore, from Philadelphia, and
a good delegation from Madison.
Mr.. Harte spoke at the High School,
Monday afternoon and gave a splen-
did talk that the young people
could understand and use for their
own health.
He is to speak three times in
Augusta, on Thursday at noon for
the Kiwanis Club, at P. M. be-
| fore the Federation of Women's
Clubs in Hallowell and in the even
, ing at public meeting of the Kiwan-
Is Club. He ais ospeaks in Lewis
ton and Boston on his way back to
Toledo. Ohio. with Mrs. Harte. who
! came wit hhim to Skowhegan as a
guest 0f Dr, r q and MrS Conyor