FOOD FADDISTS.
, SHOCKED BY NONAGENARIAN. After eating an eight-course dinner at the Grocers’ Institute, the ruddycheeked white-whiskered nonagenarian, Sir Janies Crichton-Browne, late president of the 'Medical Society, annoyed dietitians by declaring that arrant, fantastic nonsense was talked by food faddists and cranks. The most nutritious foods were discovered by personal instinct, not by scientific research. Vitamins were were the greatest food discovery of the century, but, “We won the battle of Waterloo, and fought the Great War, before vitamins were identified,” he said. “My advice is to eat what you fancy, but in moderation.”
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LIII, Issue 265, 6 October 1933, Page 12
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94FOOD FADDISTS. Manawatu Standard, Volume LIII, Issue 265, 6 October 1933, Page 12
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