Diet and food considered in relation to strength and power of endurance, training and athletics / by Alexander Haig.

  • Haig, Alexander, 1853-1924.
Date:
1900
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    very largely consumed, they are common—almost universal. A similar investigation in Australia and New Zealand would, I believe, trace to the excessive use of flesh and tea an equally long array of serious or deadly diseases, and an almost equal immber of mental and moral defects, which only a complete reversal of their present diet habits will render visible by contrast. In this country also I should attribute to the poisons of flesh and tea the all-pervading anaemia which, as seen in London, cannot be due to want of oxygen, as I have pointed out that it is equally to be seen in country towns of only half a mile radius; and many mental and moral obliquities are no doubt due to the obstructed circulation of poor and poison-laden blood (see Uric Acid, pp. 417 and 642). But these diseases have crept over us so gradually that we quite fail to recognise the full extent of our loss; and even in my own case I should formerly have said that, apart from headaches, I had good mental and bodily health on meat and tea, because I knew no better ; but I should now say that I have in both directions 50 per cent, better health without them. For the benefit of some who may see mountains of difficulty in minute points, I will now give an outline of a day's food on the above diet.