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THE CHINA MAIL, WEDNESDAY; SEPTEMBER: 29, 1953,

Duke does a victory rull

London Express Bervice

NOW WOMEN ARE SEARCHING FOR A FAT-FREE DIET

Biggest Slim-craze Hits Britain

SA

By CHAPMAN PINCHER

London.

ALES of şlimming foods are soaring. There is a boom in "starch-reduced" bread rol's and breakfast flakes which women can cat with less fear of getting fat.

Meatless "steaks" intended for vegetarians are being snap ped up by normally meat-eating women as they search the shops for a fat-free diet,

Sugar-free chocplate intend- ed for people with diabetes disappearing from sweet shops and chemists ot a faster rate for by than can be accounted the number of diabetics.

is

All the signs add up to the biggest slimming cra

Craze ever experienced in Britain.

has

Last spring manufacturers of "non-attening" foods noticed sharp rise in their sales charts. Since then the curve has gone on rising as women's desire to lose weight has gathered force. In America, where the urge to him has spread to the men, a hugo new industry in foods labelled "low-caloric" grown up in the last year.

Manufacturers there are marketing

beer, low-calorie Roft drinks, .canned foods, joms and even chewing gum to retisty the demands of people who want to eat their All alim at the same time.

Repeated warnings by doctors an the dangers of obesity have reinforced the new fashion.

Liam Regan reports on a modern miracle

FAITH-HEALING

IN SCOTLAND

J

and

own

I heard them till Mr Robson Islands, and the pallent "Joining

in his by how they felt comforting in" and praying

warmth going through them. broom at the same time. His to the Glasgow At the end of the service, I had next letter a long talk with the minister in minister reported that the head- aches had cleared for the first his vestry.

I have been interested in time m many, many weeks. Divine healing for some time.

The trend against the fuller penetrated gure ir so firmly set that the blackened are no signs of a seasonal fall the platea in the sale of slimming foods.

NO ¿PIDEMIC

the

paper

and

th: platre." When were developed it was found that the leaves had photographed themselves.

The amount of radio-activa lodine escaping from the giant the number of uranium furnaces NOW that

at Harwell poliomyelitis casce la falling and Sellafield, West Cumber- steadily doctors are willing to land, has been regulated

weeks ago the that it should not injure crops, admit that six country faced what looked like farm animals, or humans. being the worst epidemic of the complaint,

The pollontyelitis chart at the in Whitehall Health Ministry rose more steeply than ever, bé fore to a menacing now maxi- mum for carly August.

Emergency ⚫ ensures were faken, but the figures begnis to

SEEING THE JOKE

A NEW brain operation which can change a taciturn, brooding pessimist into . An optimist with a lively sense of humour has been tested by big im-

It peers 'to be a fall three weeks ago and the Oxford doctors. coses have

remained sinco scattered. There are no signs Provement on leucotomy, in any big town of any focus of standard operation for relieving mental tension, Dr Macdonaldi infection which might flare into

an epidemie.

MILK THREAT

were

the

Tow

and 'Dr Charics Whitty

claim

The

1.

new operallon, which involves removing part of the brain about the size and shape CATTLE at farms near the of a small potato chip, has been British Government's Hor- carried out on six patients who well atom station

in were extremely depressed.

"One 29-year-old, woman has danger of becoming dangerously radio-active until scientists now remained symptom-free for held a series of experiments, nearly four years, managing ber The scientists feared that own house and family, us well

lodine escaping as going out two mornings radio-active

the sir from uranium week to dö "outside" "domestle into furnaces was being absorbed by work," the doctor report.

Most of the patients became gross and other farm crops.

Caffe and sheep feeding on far more sociable and able to the gross might have became enjoy a joke.

Some doctors criticise the radio-active because the lodine collects in their thyroids-the operation on moral "grounds be- glands in the neck.

cause it produces an irrevers«. People drinking milk from 'ible change in the patient's these cattle might have bem personality. One woman who harmed.

read good literature and played

So experiments to find out classical music before the opera- how much radio-active iodine tion could tolerate only.. light can be safely set free into the novels and jazz after it

air were carried out by Mr A.

C. Chamberlain and Mr R. C.

Chadwick, of the Harwell

Health Physics Divisiote

They set free small quantities

IN THE FAMILY

THOSE unpleasant sudden starts which some people 'ex-

of radio-active fodinë vapour pertenco just as they are drop- over an airfield near Harwell, ping off to sleep seem to run în Berks.

familles, Sir Charles Symonds, Dandelion leaves and grass Guy's Hospital neurologist, re- blades down wind of the ports, vapour were then plucked and One middle-aged man, has placed on photographic plates them so violently that he never wrapped in dark paper,

dares to doze in ́a railway They were ao radio-active, carriage. His sudden forks would that

the rays.

they gave off shake him off his scat,

Nathaniel

Gubbins

Glasgow, service progressed, however, they

occupied VERY week through- were gradually out Scotland, in the out Scotland, in the People from all round me,

There were the men and women smaller communities, and that little schoolboy-who a steadily-growing band of were suffering from various all- mentu, and who were about to

ond Church of Scotland minis- take part in a Jaying-on of hangis but have only taken on active Today, between thirty ters are practising "faith--ceremony-

art In-it-since about Christ- forty Church of Scotland minis- -part-

ho told me.

ters in the Glasgow area alone healing."

Mr Robson naked the ladies to mas,""

The mys

of warmth which have formed themselves into a remove their hata, and any man-

and arc studying and Without publicity of any kind of the congregation who had most of the patients sald they

experienced they are holding these regular

Laying-on of hands were not felt in Presbyteries up and down special services in their churches moved forward to faise off their had

wristwatches.

the land special committees Some truly

by the minister. and their halls.

"I feel. nothing: if must be have been set up to study, this remarkable results have been reported by considerable num- WATCHES STOP

some other agency which uses completely new and promising me as the Intermediary. Instead aspect of the Church's work in Woman, has gone to Lon: not want fennel, As he is not bers of people who have already

of being exhausted or weak co-operation, with expert medi- don for the day, The Old cooking duck, he will not want benefited, both physically and

Club Chum, on holiday, ar amo, he will not want mint. sage. As he is not cooking spiritually, from much healing services.

.

.

about 100

during the Previne bealing, while

after a service like this, I feel cal opinion. Invigorated and refreshed," said Mr Robson.

are fennel, sage. OON after your Uncle Among them Nat'a ky

Life Partner, mint, chives.

crossly, that as Little he is not cooking ah he will

O.C.C. mays,

rooms.

After another cocktail, we go out to pick chives. They are under the tomato plants. As wo aro rummaging round, we find bunches of ripe tomatoes on the two biggest stems.

We pull together and shout Hooray as we got a handful

"It has been found that watches

The Glasgow, group of minis-rives at The Sen Nest.

But he could use the chives, LS, have sometimes stopped owing to

others ters are typical of the

As this calls for a celebra- they will provide that oniony I was the first reporter to the invisible power which re-

now being formed in many parts

killi the are gladly touch, without attend 과 special Church of quently goes up and down the

of Scotland. They hold regular tion, newspapers Scotland Talth-healing service, patient's aim," the minister later MANY APPEALS

of the mush- thrown side, and O.C.C. is delicate flavour weekly meetings every Monday, which was held by the minister explained to me.

After prayer, There was a remarkable (ce:-

these ministers shown round the town. of one of Glasgow's largest

compare notes and consult one When showing round the town churches in the West End of ing, 2 atmosphere, of everyone

In that crowded church hall being During the past 12 months, another on their healing experi- has gone on for some time, the city.

Junch at local |O.C.C, auggests at one with each other, the minis the study and practice of "falth ences of the previous week.

hotel, but is soon talked into This was no packed group of ter, the anxious patients, and the healing" by the canny ministers

of Scotland - Once a month they go round the idea of buying and cooking excited, near-hysterical evan- quietly praying friends and sela of the Church

our own lunch, gelists, but a solemn congrega- lives seated just behind them.

Divine-healing is what they pre- their different churches in the The minister walked slowly to fer to call this-has increased city, in rotation, and hold special people, ion of

O.C.C., who has cooked and services of Intercession and

catered for himself

for many crowded into a small hall along the first person in the front row, very considerably.

arai stood by hiả an elderly

Only the other month, some healing. side the chinch.

de. While the old man sat still,

are perhaps the most years, offers to be shopper and chef. As meat is now plentiful, ed Into The people who attended were the minister spread out his hands thing like 200 ministers crowd-

an Edinburgh hall to moving church services over her

and creamed rooms, tomatoes

We help each other off the a very representative gathering, palm down, not exactly on the hear one

of their colleagues witnessed in the modern Church. We think fillet steaks with mush- church- patiently thead, but about half- typical of the average

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tised, and they are held in the members of the

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Quietly the ninleler prayed.

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Letters poured I even the patient: to others he were minister who had delivered the

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Sometimes as many as six or he was a stranger-but a man in church on the South Side of or nino-at the service.

Glasgow containing

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Occasionally I noticed a hand- kerchief being quietly taken from

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These

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As

O.C.C. could fall, O.C.C. prepare and cooks a shopper give points to women who in- the steaks, using half the butter furiate butchers by, poking their ration

with the fingers into bits of meat and have burgundy

the asking for impossible cuts, but steaks, and then go into when situation is explained to garden to sleep in deck chairs.

when we are Hours later, butcher, he is on our side at

walking round the gaden 'smok- He looks at us with respeel ing a cigarette, we see the results tug-of-war among The and sympathy almost amount of

tomato plants The biggest ing to brotherly love, as he cuta

once.

all came from as; for, apart' der aro friends, or in the worst since 1939. the Channel Islands and the cases nurses.

Orkneys.

when he came to the little boy.

watched him particularly LONG RANGE

In

That schoolboy suffers from

hod

He then read from a short list of names. These were sick 5.00 people smo of them

•hospital, 5.00

whom the congregation been spraying for during the

others

fil at home athena, badly. Mr Robson spoke

-

'cess of Ing

or

2

on the

of The P.L.W. have been broken, and are hanging by a thread.

by members' of, his church, naffeoled, pard, of the body in Gloagow--more, theri 600 genuine, the most devout, of ait, Inta, the garden. It is quite a with one piercing glanen.. SOUTH CHINA MORNING POST, LTD. at that evening's service, poople; too shy to take pact in This was done, and the ser- ter out to me tomatoes are ill green aineo Well, muur he

By taxi, car, wheelchair- "We are still going through occasionally even by stretcher a handbag, sometimes an embar- that mail we will turn

o: c. c. ваув Experienced no- these patients are carried into

We look at each other acn rassed coughs.

the body of the church. One butchers hate women, but will

cusingly. You Uncle Nat sug- After a few minutes, the minds- body's appeal away," that minis- minister of the group takes the do anything for lonely men.

round green-

gests the stems might be all O.C.C. noses ter moved to the next patient, a ter told me...

service, and another usually gives the address.

grocer's, picking out best mush right I supported with some- thing In fact, he knows a woman,

Then the remaining four, five rooms and potatoes. As we are retired surgeon who would put

six ministers walk round taking another lock round town them in splints.

But O.C.C. among the alling patients, laying before going home, to mentiona

|maga they are their hands on their heads for he has forgotten Tomatoes,

beyond healing. We must plek to him quietly, made him feel at He quoted - a typical case, A.

several minutes at a time, while But his Uncle tells him that the tomatoes off the branches 1.00

past few weeks. Mr Robson, ease, and then repeated the pro- man la the Channel Islanis had the remainder of that remark-be has 'tomatoes growing. In the and put them in, a drawer to

his hands above been plagued with persistent, able congregation concentrates

date garden. The PAW, planied 10.00 told us how the patients were the lod's

agonising, headaches. Ho" asked of these patients, so far as he could possibly be included on to this special same for them like spoiled we do a quickly and allotte

them last June and has been pon.

As The P.L.W. due home, progressing, and I have seldom

Inition 7.50 heard any clergytown's words so I could ascertain, svare suffer- among those who would be service in Glasgow, scores

of children ever sin much, the body.

Although The murderers, disposing of a being no eagerly and intensely ing from arthritis, deafness, head- prayed for by name. The ministers are now bolding - she loves them so

But before we can dia- followed.

aches, eye troubles, rheumatism, mathma, etc., sms occasionally the patient also requested that the dividual "falth-healing". services would be glad 'enti proud lf wo, seo of the broken stems in the 24.00

Later he named more people, minkter, after holding hands over date and hour of this service be in their own churches and balls, some with out proce

to him so that ho could

dustbin,, The; P.LAW.. comon, as the one I attended, such the pont would grip

So we go home and open the in through 15.00 These names irad been sent in their heads,

the The congregations present at cocktail cabinet. Then we walk tages in the whole situation dake part in it, in a spiritual

garden door, and along with the congresta- such services

the most „Kölvineldo Church of Scotland, continue praying

At the close of this unique aer-

O.C.C. sys. niid ́from further afield, saking

An As one "faith-healing" miniss shock to find that most of the

must-be for prayers to be, mid for them vice of healing, a number of miles away

Over another cocktail, says, Weil; he'd better sod, him aging-on of hands ceremony. In view of intercession was held sontence: “They are a wonderful wandered

why there from of the rest of us, were soon afterwards, with a Scottish congregation because when they apologies are mode to G.C.C. ant. They both see each other were: Love, rows of vocant desire treated pelvsili”, “with (only the congregation quieti, praying for como here they really Ames He is told that the garden is full round the town, waninanzie

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