The inexhaustible subject of what 10 eat and drink has just been attack-4 from a new angle by Professor Motham, of London University, who does not seem to think it matters mich what. we consume.
We are all food faddists, he says, because Invariably food fashions were determined by our upbringing. We feat. things because our parents accustomed us to eat them. Or we Abstain feom things in order to be Jdifferent from other people. A man feels well after some patent breakfast food and thereafter swears by (AM auto-suggestion. Twenty other foods, if presented' with the Same Smpressive ritual, would make him feel just as merry and bright.
This reminds me of an unusually candid nurse, on the only occasion that Iwas in hospital, When convalescing I was ordered a tumbler of mile on waking with a tablespoonful Jof some very popular powder stirred 10 It. This powder was supposed to contain I don't know how many vitamins and hormones and essences pituitary glands, and it made the mille taste like a newly white-washed
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