1937-08-13 — Page 10

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