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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER
8, 1936.
DRINK AND THE MAN
Doctor on Meal Fads
-and
of Women What We
PROFESSOR URGES THOROUGH
DOES
RESEARCH
a drink have a man?
good or a bad effect on a tired
Professor Sir Joseph Barcroft put the poser to dele- gates at the British Medical Association conference in Oxford.
He wants research into the matter,
Sir Joseph, who was a member of the committee appointed by the B.M.A. to study the relation of alcohol to road accidents, said all thinking people conceded that even in moderate quantities alcohol had an adverse effect, though taken some hours before
driving.
"But what is the effect, though of alcohol on the tired man?" he asked.
"One member of the committee took the view that alcohol!. might be regarded as beneficial to the tired man, and in the gen- cral run of practice one finds a great many doctors who agree.
"But the fact is, I believe, that we do not know. Present research le only in relation to the average per- son and not to the tired man.
"It would seem to me well to go into this MOTORISTS
thoroughly."
PRAISES
Sir Joseph praised motorists, and especially the undergraduate driver un extremely skilled person." He trembled to think of the num- ber of people who were hurt on the
roads.
Yet it was remarkable not how many accidents there were but how
Communism Has Big
Hold On China
London, Aug. 20.
Should Eat
EXPERTS ON FOOD
AN
VALUES
N adult living an ordi- nary life in a temperáte climate, and not engaged in manual work, requiries 2,400 calories of energy, a day from food.
This is the basis agreed upon by the Technical Commission set up by Health Organisation of the League of Nations to examine the the problem of nutrition, and which farms the principal conclusion in a report published by Messre, Allen and Unwin.
The Commission Includes three re-
ntatives from the United King- ; John B. Orr, Director of
Bureau
Animal of the Imperial Nutrition, Professor E. P. Cathcart, a member of the Government Advisory Committee on Nutrition, and Pro-
E. Mellanby, Secretary of the esearch Council (Chair- Commission have fixed the fol- muscular lowing supplements for
man).
The
few. It was a great tribute to the AMONG Chinese pensanta Com activity per hour of work to be added
care and skill of drivers,
to the basic requirements:
Light work up to 15 calories.
to 75-150 Moderate work up
calories.
up
10
work
150-300 Hard calories.
to 300 Very hard work up calories and over.
In practice, they, state, the protein intake for all aduits should not fall of body-weight. This below one gramme of protein per
munism is a vital, living impulse which cannot be eradicated by force "Cuntonu, saya the Manchester Guardian, Sir Ewen Maclean said:
Probably nowhere else in the world there be doubt that the absorption of nicohol develops a lack of perspechus Communism spread so fast and so spontaneously as in certain areas in in reading, writing and arith- tive
n fourth Chinn and though momentarily held in check it would break out again in melle and-f 1 muy add
R-road sense
certain circumstances. OSTEOPATHY ATTACKED
But this and other forces, anch as An attuck on osteopathy and chiro- practic was made by Mr. A. S. Blun- Western Imperialism, deep-grained dell Bankart, Orthopaedic Surgeon regionalism. and modern nationalism kilogramme
is desirable that a of Middlesex Hospital, at one of the are all at present negative, reacting should be derived from a variety of be of BL to one great dynamic force, namely, sources, and it
part of the protein should
21 con- selentifle sections.
Japanese expansion. He said:
This may be inspired by religious animal origin. Fat must be is
American CATZ "Osteopathy
inheritance from stituent of the normal diet, but the at present available de 201 runt based on the unsupported mysticism or an
of a suffice to permit assertion that almost all diseases | Mongol ancestors or a search for new data are caused by imaginary displace-markets. ments of the spine. It has been
The Commission thvestigated up to the hill, and it rect we are partly responsible and PROTECTING: ENERGY GIVING every nuw tariff in the West may
deficiencies of modern has been found wanting.
mean a province lost to China. sur-
on the list usually in the protective foods The next sacrifice is up to all orthopaedic
to see that these confidence North China-is so important tricks are exposed, and to ensure no pot rich in minerals and vitamins) rather that the proper use of manipulation mean to give up China; us if a travel in surgery is, taught and practised in ler, attempting to throw his wife to the wolves, should fall out of the all our teaching hospitals."
An elderly woman, he said, des- sleigh himself.
"1t
| icons
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TO BRING BACK..
WILLIAM POWELL 6 MYRNA LOY Mụ in
is "Brute force and-ignorance."
If the economic explanation is 'cor: ment of the quantity reels.
thai
then
state-
that the diets are (loods
n in more strictly energy-bearing foods (rich in calories). Thus, sugar and muscle meats, mills and the leafy vegetables form the most important
the As Japan's expansion is clearly protective foods. In other regions, Irrational the chances of a war in where probable-Rester.
He told her that this was the best the Far East become increasingly 18 elth protein content of the dict
de@nition he had heard.
JUDGE'S
TROUBLES WITH
FILM STUDIO SLANG ” "IT is difficult for the uninitiated to understand how a film ever gets produced at all,” said Mr. Justice Goddard, in the King's Bench Division recently, giving judgment for £541 98., with costs, in favour of two scenario writers who sued Criterion Film Productions, Ltd., Burge-row, Cannon-street. Mr. Akos Tolnay, of Radnor, Hall, Elstree, and Mr. James Wil liams, of Linden-gardens, Notting Hill-gate, claimed demages in re- spect of a contract, by which they were to write the scenario synoji- sis, treatment, and shooting script | of the film, "The Amateur Gentle
man.
the compuny They alleged that wrongfully repudiated the contraci,
too low or of poor quality, meat would provide a highly valu uble protective food. In yet other treas, where the diet consists almost exclusively of cooked and dry foods, fresh fruits, and (or) vegetables might be the most important protec- tire food.
Among the protective foods are. the Commission declare, first and most importani, milk and milk pro- ducts (including butter), eggs, and landular issues; then green-leaf vegetables, fruit, fat, fish, and mesi the energy- (muscle),
Among bearing foods of little or no pro- lective
power are sugar, cereals and certain fats.
mlites
Of energy-giving foods, unmilled protective are not rich in cereais nutrients, and the more they are re- protective power. Many fats, especially when constituents. Refined sugar is of value only as a source of energy;
MINERALS VITAL fined the less is their
FOR PLANT LIFE
INCREASED TO 14
Berkeley, Cal., Aug. 25. The new selence of growing
refined, possess little or no protective
is entirely devoid of af andre ind
vitamins.
The Increasing habit, in certain countries, of large sugar consumption tends to lessen the amount of protet
so that they lost screen publicity and plunts in water instead of soil has tive foods in the diet, and is to be
in
Its
cercals, I re-
Co of an
that 14 Chemicali regarded with concern.
In cases where energy values are the balance of £350 which was to
demonstrated
necessary for higher have been paid to them under the elements are
to Dr. D. R. equal, protective foods should always agreement.
IMPORTANCE OF MILK The company alleged breaches of plant life, according
The Commission recommend, as a contract by the scenario writers in not oogland, professor of plant nutrillon be preferred. delivering material according to time, at the University of Californin.
had general principle, that variety re- Previously, plant experts and counterclaimed damages in
necessary. spect of the additional expense to generally agreed that only 10 min-diet tends to safety, provided it con- The tains a sumciency of the protective ieral elements were
of food materials. which the company had been put.
ones that have just been types
They consider that while our in Mr. Tolnay and Mr. Williams both four new
the 1st nrc manganese,
the process of milling is deprived of Cenied that they had broken the con-indded to
elements. boron, copper and zinc.
nutritive tract.
Important LOSS OF PUBLICITY
The completion of this list is the use should be decreased, and partial
Hightly
milled "One of the troubles in the case last step in research work of the substitution by sald Mr. Justice Goddard, "is that
The people engaged in the cinematograph elements necessary for higher plant and especially by world apparently speak a language life begun in England, then continued commended.
own. There in Kentucky and finally taken up at excessive amount of sugur is con- tends to leasen the pro- ¡demned, as it very much of their seems to be very little certainty as Berkeley 15 years ago.
Milk, it is stated, should form a conspicuous elemommission com- element of the diet at all ages. The mend the tendency in some coun- tries to increase the dally take up to one lire a day for pregnant and nursing women, as well as to pro- vide an abundant supply for in- fants, children of all ages, and adolescents. The practice of pro- viding milk elther free or at a re- duced price to these groups Is highly recommended.
to exactly what is meant by come The development of the new sya-portion of protective foods. term which are very freely used. tem of growing plants in electrically See peeple coll a scenario what
has contributed largely to the latest other people call a shooting script."ated tanks with artificial sunshine Awarding the scenario writers discoveries relative to plant life, Dr. £100 each for loss of screen publicity.Tougland says.. Mr. Justice Goddard observed:
"The same principles must be ap-
At the same time such progress has plied in the case of the author of a been made in growing various plants play as those which apply to on actor and vegetables in tanks, that Univer-,
sity of California scientists have de- or actress in a play."
A stay of execution was grantedclared that a country without soli pending notice of appeal on condition and with a purely water production that the company paid £150 to each of crops is not an impossibility.
United Press.
of the authors.
Thief Steals
Night In
Police Chief's Bed
The Commission draw attention to the high mutritive value of skimmed and separated milk, and deplore the Jarge wastage lu many countries of this valuable food.-
Fresh vegetables and (or) fruit, they declare, should always be con stituents of the normal mixed diet. Adequate provision of the vitamins other than vitamin D can be readily accomplished by inclusion in the diet of protective foods,
The Commission emphasise the need for provision of extra vitamin D, wherever and whenever sunshine is abundant. The Indiscriminato Ifad a meal, slept in one of the beds, took a gold wristlet watch and not other valuables. Left in a suit of clothes and pair of boots belonging to Mr.use of irradiated foods, except in the Baldie:
The discovery was made when the chlef constable returned from hollday. case of milk, is deprecated.
THE THIN MAN" THE home of Kirkcaldy chief constable, Mr. David Baidle, is opposite police
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