Doctor Criticises
ONDON,
been run
after the newest
led Hay Diet,
this time the
and the more
and
sational Press has been full of it, publishing daily menus prescribing diets for breakfast, lunch and dinner for every dyspep- tie that cares to write detailing his or her symptoms. It would almost seem as if the dietetic millennium had arrived. The rip ple of the wave was sure to ar
South Africa.
What is this doctrine?
of the Compatibility compatibility of Foodstuffs, its one rigid principle is that proteins and starches must be kept separate in meals and be part- nered with the right accompani ments.
No New Gospel
It is not a new gospel In my library there has been for over a dozen years an American book, published in London, preaching the same doctrine. It had its little period of notoriety, and then be- came forgotten. And so, în my every opinion, it will be with scheme of diet which places more importance on the kind of food we put into our stomach than
the general and nervous
of the whole body
rent and life habi
we want to, or think we can
our dyspepsia by
THE HAY
by
Howard Hay,
chose diet
swfered from S age of $1, but almost complete
DIET
Brea
tem
sical
abst
On
are
the form of a slight dish of vegetables three normal meals, brought him relief.
barth of the Hay diet was in 1925, when Dr.
address to the
Health Club, his out forward 200 doctors scoff at
all over
based
nglish
ame meal with bread, cerea gumes or pot
Again- "Never combine rav
Etablies with dried pess, besi toes or fruit?? use desserts, jellies, sugars, syrups
If you observe all those Nots," then that American of 1924 promises you good and long life. These Do
Leipol
food; we do not think we can or Dr. Hay's Belief
want to cure ourselves. So, when the novelty of this diet is over we shall be back in the old rut. - And yet re can pick some good things out of it, things which may have been of great benefit to dyspeptics who live to eat and not eat to live To Lon- don folk of the rich and middle classes who have meals of many courses, who have a heavy meat breakfast, as heavy a lunch, and at dinner many meat dishes, it is quite certain that the, Hay scheme would bring dietetic salvation. It would as surely do the same to South Africans who dies too rich ly and generously.
Let me show this. The book I referred to as published in 1924 begins thus:
The three meals of the day should be
"Bres
Lunet
The
fruit meal
toma
sylva
advice on selective
and rubbish. carbohydrates da re-
alkaline
digestion an proteins an acid one. bish is about what goes on in the stomach. In the first place, the saliva does not normally nearly neutralise the gastric juice.
a matter of fact, it has been recently proved (this to my own utter astonishment) that bolting
food or not seems to make rence That proves that
has less to do
with
weave though, but
place the alkaline
gastric juice much as Dr. Hay ke out. In fact,
our divided into two com- s separated by a
The top part is only place where the saliva which down from the mouth-
of digesting the The Tower is where the are churned to
xed with the and Juice. In the third place,
Now take the teaching in 1936 by William Howard Hay, MD, Health Director of the Sun-Diet
Foundation, East Aurora. York I quote from his book. "Carbohydrates, including the starchy and sweet things the table, and also bread potatoes, require alkaline treat- ment for their digestion, while the proteins, such as lean meat,
sugary foods is not done in the etc., require acid treatment. The
stomach at all, but in the duo- mixture of starches with concen-
denum after they leave the clear in- trated proteincis a
stomach and by means of the al- compatibility, making it impos-kaline pancreatic fluid. sible for one of these dissimilar foods to be digested. So not only
a glass of the juice
ors
they
and tos gether scrambl
and crea
Sugar and
How
starch break
the cereals
au, bacon and
of eggs contain from seven to 15. per cent of protein
Lunches
On four days of the wee are called protein meals, and sist of roast lamb, steak, or poached egg and bacon, or fillet of sole sauce, together with stri mixed green salão
carrots, turnips, Jettuce salad wi
sliced tomatoes, and every with fresh fruit or compo fruit, and tea or coffee
ugar.
On alternate days the luncheons are of starch. They creamed cauliflower, and bananas, or. with butter, raw and nuts and raisins and braised onions padding, made with sugar. Men are diploms lowed beer
the main digestion of starchy or Dinners Or Suppers
Three Digestive Fluids
On three days of the week thes samples: are protein. Here are
No. Vegetable soup, calf's liver and fat bacon, fried toes and fresh fruit.
No. 2-Chicken liver with vegetables or salad,
If, as is the case, the Greated with apple and toma
cheese. Designer placed an alkaline diges- tive fluid in the mouth, in acid one in the stomach, and a second
must we avoid the mixture of meats with our starchy foods but also the acids of fruits or any form of acid whatever. Why? Be cause, if there were enough saliva,katne oue in the pancreas, which is alkaline, to neutralise the gastric juice, which is acid, the arbohydrates would ferment and
while
ere is an acid digester be- two alkaline ones, is that
that He meant our diges
to deal foods of in combination
No. 3. Minute steak, vegetable marrow, stewed fruit. And of them with tea, coffee with cream, but no sugar.
On the alternate four days they are of starch
Here are samples:
No. 1.-Bacon and yolk of buttered
cream cheese and
STATIONERY
that is
DIFFERENT
CHIVALRY INTIENT SCRIPT IN FOUR FASH
FARLE
artii,
biscuits
NO 2
But they are Barley
in butter,
and
or figs.
eat meal ha
10 to 12.
-No 3
protein.
sauce, cal age, and
Lan combine the
starch when
them?
even ever
its And has a small
No. 4-Bak
The thing is impossible, and the doetrin based on the wrong idea that the mam
digestion done the
Dis
with cre