Diet for women / by Cecil Webb-Johnson.

  • Webb-Johnson, Cecil, 1879-1930.
Date:
1922
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Credit: Diet for women / by Cecil Webb-Johnson. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    INTRODUCTION This book is due indirectly to the Editor of The Times, who, recognising the importance of the subject of Diet, opened his columns to a discus- sion on the subject. The gauntlet having been thrown down by an eminent physician, who asserted that women do not eat enough, I was forced to take up the challenge and reply in the contrary to the best of my ability. My reply was contained in the following letter : — “ Sir,—Last January you published a letter from me on the subject of the feeding of school- boys, the last sentence of which read as follows : ‘ In short, the average schoolboy does not eat too little—he eats too much, but does not include sufficient fresh fruit and vegetables in his daily dietary.’ “ We are generally told ‘ women eat too little.’ Believing, as I do, that all diseases are caused either by an excessive or an injudicious diet, and further, that these diseases can be cured bv changing that diet, I feel it to be a public duty to warn women that if they increase the quantity of food they take in the 24 hours, the only people that will benefit will be the doctors. “ The majority of people ‘ dig their graves with
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