The Archive · 1928

Fuel Foods

There remains another consi tion. The fuel foods serve not only to keep us warm, but also to move tus: they are the equivalent of the petrol in the internal combustion engine. If, therefore, we are going out of doors to take exercise, then, in exact measure to the energy we thus expend, we may maintain our intake of food.

In these days, to lay down the law on health is an anachronism and an impertinence. I must submit the reasons for my advice, and I always do so. The advice itself is simple Apart from the needs of ad-und ant and vigorous exercise, in the summer we should eat less: far, far less than nearly all of us do—Dr. C. W. Sanceny.

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