TUESDAY, DECEMBER 22, 1931.
EAT SWEETS AND
OPTIMISTIC
BE
PERSONALITY CHANGED BY DIET.
Startling Views of An American Scientist.
used synthetic sweets with the same taste as the others but lack- ing in carbohydrates. One-third fewer feelings of fatiguo appear- ed on the hike when the carbo- hydrates were munched than on both hikes.
"Feelings of fatiguc are often imaginary," Dr. Laird explains, "and it was therefore an import- ant part of the experiment to see that the carbohydrate foods could not be distinguished from the others. Such results as were ob- tained came unquestionably from the food itself and not from the imagination of the subject.
THE
"Women in the process of dras- tic reducing diets have given ample proof of the sad effect of personality which results from the diet of all carbohydrates. They are irritable, nervous and
and the sc chronically tired
week or so of a reducing diet is one of the greatest pos sible strains on the family tie.
Will there come a time when Catholic University. "Both here we can change our personalities at Colgate and in other labora- through diet, when the morose tories where the psychology of and surly, merely by the judici- nutrition is being studied, prob- ous use of sweets, can be trans-ably the most positive and in- formed into optimists, and when teresting results have been ob- diet can be prescribed to make tained through experiments with us more adaptable, more attrac sweets. Physiologists and dieti-cond tive, more kind?
tians had already blasted the old prejudice that sweets are bad for
Definite Change. us and taught the public that
"Such results were tabulated sweets are not only beneficial but
by the Nutrition 'Laboratory in a necessary part of the diet.
the case of aquads of young men "Our experiment has gone
We have found who were put on a typical reduc-. still further. that sweets exert the most pro-ing diet for several months nounced stimulation on the gas purely for science and not for tric juices, thereby promoting that girlish figure. Their heroic that the experiment showed good digestion, soothing nerves frayed by fatigue and so making body will stand a lot of punish- the individual happier and better ment, but that it does not exact-
ly take it gracefully, adjusted to life.
This is the vision of a well- known American scientist. In the psychological laboratory at Colgate University, Dr. Donald A. Laird is conducting a series of experiments to determine the effect of common foods on per- sonality. The conclusions show, by graph and chart and actual data, that there is a definite re- lationship between what we eat and what, mentally and emo- tionally as well as physically, we
are,
Dr. Laird, who is head of the is psychology department. young, enthusiastic and engross- ed with this subject which may affect life so vitally and 80 widely.
are
While he has probably done more exhaustive research in his line than any other man, he disclaims credit for origin- ating the theory.
"There
two hundred detailed research reports by psychologists and biochemists which indicate encouragingly that body chemistry and the foodstuffs which enter into its maintenance have a profound re- lationship to many personality, characteristics," he said in an interview. "Both abnormal and normal personality traits appear to come under the sway of diet in many instances."
The Question. "This, of course, raises the question whether mind deter- mines hudy or whether body de- termines mind, or whether they are merely different aspects of the same thing known as an in- ividual. But this is a question to interest the philosopher and its final answer if there can be a final answer to a poster of this sort will not change the rather startling facts which research has established."
answer to
A partial
this "poser" was advanced recently in a very citadel of conservative science. The American Medical Association heard a report from Dr. Walter Freeman, of Wash- ington, Chairman of the Associn- nervous and tion's section on mental diseases, which told of experiments establishing a rela- tionship between insanity and the chemical content of the body, Dual personality, he said, may be only lack of oxygen in the system, while other forms of insanity probably result from a deficiency of sulphur and iron in the brain. In experiments at St. Elizabeth Hospital, Wash- ington, Dr. Freeman actually re- lieved cases of insanity by ad- ministering the needed chemical elements.
nervous
Sea Foods.
"The energetie vivacious, live- ly personality associated with an active thyroid gland is dependent upon a food supply that has ade- quate amounts of iodine," Dr. Laird' says. "Sea foods are rich in iodine, so it may well be that the gay, likeable person, popular at parties, is so because he eats heartily of shell fish and not be cause he has learned to play the aaxophone in ten easy lessons by post.
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"Persons with ал excit- abia
have makeup.
been found by Dr. Gilbert J. Rich to have an alkaline reaction in both their blood and saliva. Can we indulge our imaginations a bit and wonder if the younger gen- eration is becoming more excit able from eating an
excess of alkaline foods? Or whether, the excitable person would have his this personality tempered in quality if he followed a base- forming diet of eggs, red meat, oatmeal, wheat, bacon and rice? Aid to Digestion. "These conjectures deserve to be taken in all seriousness, for the work of Dr. Rich is confirm ed in one way or another by the work of Dr. H. E. Starr at the University of Pennsylvania, and Dr. John William Rauth at the
"Carlyle and Schopenhauer, two historical pessimists, might have been turned into radiant optimista by a periodic chocolate
cream.
A Test.
Dr. Laird's experiments with diet and fatigue proved beyond question the advantage of hav- ing sweets at hand for every emergency. One experiment dealt with fatigue from ordinary stair climbing, an activity which consumes fifteen times as much bodily energy as covering the same distance on the level.
Twelve healthy and vigorous young men were used as sub. prior to jects. Forty minutes the test they were given drinke, half of which contained a car bohydrate in concentrate form and half of which did not. Only one laboratory assistant knew which drinks were loaded with the carbohydrate and the tastes were identical.
The boys were given an ex- amination before.
and after climbing the stairs. The second test showed that the speed and accuracy of co-ordination of the eye and hand, general muscular co-ordination, body sway, "lag of attention" and speed of men- tul addition, were all impaired to a greater or less degree by this exercise in the young men who had not received the carbohydrate cocktail. But in the others, all these effects were found to have been offset by the effect of the sweet.
Among Hikers.
"The complex psychological functions are the first to rebel, to slow up, to lose accuracy. While on the reducing diet, these young men lost in hearing, be came less sensitive to electrical shocks, slowed up in speed of ad- were affected still dition, but worse in accuracy of addition.
"They lost the ability to draw a straight line and their strength of elenching a fist decreased. The speed with which their eyes could be moved from left to
& reduction right suffered Home five per cent. In short, their personalities underwent a quite definite change."
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An Explanation. Diet probably has a direct bear- ing on world history and the na ture of the nations, Dr. Laird believes. He says "While we do not wish to agree entirely with those who see in the history of the natural supply of good-stuffs the reasons for the history of a people, it is nevertheless plain that we find in carbohydrates at least a partial explanation of the energy and activity and ordinary resistance to fatigue, which char- acterises localities nations.
and even
"The fish, meat and blubber diet of the Eskimo, and, the tro- pical diet of fruit, nuts and milk may throw some light on tha typical lassitude of both peoples --it we can for the moment dis- regard other factors."--Ceylon Observer,
To my mind the question before Another experiment conduct- many of the countries throughout ed by Dr. Laird was an eight-the world to-day is: Which is it mile hike taken by eight young to be-gold without trade, or if need men un exertion which, under be trade without gold?-Sir H. normal conditions, produces Deterding. about the same feeling of fatigue
as going without a night's sleep. "He who is false to present duty. On some hikes, they took an as- breaks a thread in the lom, and sortment of sweets rich in carbo-will find the flaw when he may have hydrates, while on others they forgotten its cause."-Beecher.
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Mr. M. H. Lo, pursuant to notice, of the will ask at the meeting Sanitary Board to-day:
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In a lecture in New York he tione on December 9 1980, and the answers of the Head of the said that by means of less than Sanitary Department to me of 1,000 script signs, most of which the same date, in the course of could be borrowed from the Chin- ese, the same idea could be con- which he stated that the re-veyed to all who knew them, but ports of the Malariologist on Lyeemun and Taikoo wore forwarded to the Government
"To begin with, I should intro- by the Honourable the Direc duce a limited number of char tor of Medical and Sanitary acters for universal use in con- Services with his recommenda- nection with public notices in tions on October 4 and 14, 1930, towns and roads and railway sta- respectively,, that the Govorations and so forth. In every ment was not then in, a posle land such notices would be posted tion to announce its intentions in the language of the country recommendations sub- and in the universay script. This mitted, and that the question would accustom people to its use. of publishing the recommenda-
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on February 3, 1981, and the China. answers of the Head of the Sanitary Department to me on the same date, in the course of which he stated inter alia that he was authorised to reply that when the Malarlologist had mado a comprehensive survey and had submitted a complete report on the Colony It would be published- Will the Head of the Sanitary Department be kind enough to ascertain from the Govern- mont, and inform the Board, as to whether the Malariologist ! has now made the comprellen- sive survey and complete re- port above referred to, and if not, as to whether it is post- sible to state when the same may be expected, and when the *same will be published? ii. Will the Head of the Sanitary Department be kind enough to obtain from the Government
A liaison with a dashing airman the necessary Information to enable him to make a stato is aaid to have led to the tragedy ment to this Board as to what of which she now stands accused. anti-malarial measures have It is alleged that, although she been taken since the appoint- had severed her connection with ment of the Malariologist? Senor de Astoreca, he continued to 1. Can the Head of the Sanitary pay her a monthly cheque until Department give any informa- 1928, when he lost a large part tion to the Board as to whether of his fortune and finally stopped there is any evidence that such the allowance altogether, anti-malarial measures as have been taken within the present year have resulted in any ap preciable diminution of this disease 28. compared with former years?
iv. Is it not a fact that there are many malarial cases in the Colony at the present time?
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