Diet for women / by Cecil Webb-Johnson.

  • Webb-Johnson, Cecil, 1879-1930.
Date:
1922
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Credit: Diet for women / by Cecil Webb-Johnson. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    three meals a day, and if she wishes to be healthy she should eat nothing- between those meals. “ (2) They do not eat enough fresh fruit or vegetables. They turn up their noses at salads, and consider fruit should be taken in addition to their ordinary food. “ (3) They ‘ force food down ’ instead of wait’ ing for a healthy appetite, and often eat ‘ from a sense of duty/ Food taken in such circum- stances can but do harm. How few women dis- tinguish between ‘ hunger ’ and ‘ appetite ’! “ (4) They do not drink enough water between meals. “ (5) They drink too much tea, and eat too many sweets, chocolates and cakes. “ (6) They do not eat enough brown bread and foods containing cellulose. They prefer bread which has been robbed of its chief nourishment by the miller or cakes sweetened by sugar which has been ‘ relined/ “ The old idea of ‘ feeding up9 is dying a natural death, for modern authorities on diet recognise that such a procedure is wrong, and that when a person is unwell or old, the best method of regaining or retaining health is to diminish the amount of food and not to increase it. “ I would like in conclusion to take one sen- tence from an article in The Times (May 1st), written by a woman, in which she says :—‘ There are an immense number of women in every class of life who would eat more if they could afford it/ Does she suggest that their health would improve in consequence? “If so, I will conclude this letter as follows : —
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